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Keeping in touch with family during the holiday season can be challenging for anyone, but it’s especially difficult for military families with loved ones serving around the country or overseas.
Gmail’s built in video chat and free calls to the U.S. and Canada can help keep friends and family in contact regardless of how far apart they may be. To make staying in touch this holiday season even easier for military families, we’re offering a $10 calling credit to help them reach their loved ones serving abroad.
These international call credits can be used to make calls with Google Voice or from right inside Gmail, and will provide families with roughly 30 minutes of call time to Afghanistan, 60 minutes to Iraq, or hundreds of minutes to many countries in Europe and around the world. To make this possible, we’ve partnered with Blue Star Families and Sesame Street, two organizations dedicated to supporting service members and their families.
Read how to get it:
http://googlevoiceblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/call-credits-for-military-families-this.html
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That $10 does go a long way if those minutes they quoted are right. " 30 minutes of call time to Afghanistan, 60 minutes to Iraq, or hundreds of minutes to many countries in Europe and around the world." And other companies bigger than them don't do anything! Good for Google. :)
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$20 would have been nicer. $10's not bad and better than nothing. And note that registration for this only lasts for so long. Thanks Kay!
Complete the registration form by December 22, 2010
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It's a nice gesture from Google. I wouldn't fault them for it being $10 any more than I would have if it had been $5. It's the thought that counts. :)
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It wouldn't have broken the bank to make it $50 either. I'm with Splash. They could write it off as tax deductible I bet too. Companies like Google don't give anything away without their being something in it for them.
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All I know is that if you know any military family that can use this, there's only a few days left to register. :)
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Good for Google I say too. They did more than a dozen other high profile companies I could think of that could have had similar giveaways.
I suppose it's a nice gesture but $10? I think Google could have been more generous. They are not penniless.
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