Yahoo’s new online phone calls near

Yahoo is expanding its reach in the fast-growing Internet calling market, offering a service that will allow people to make and receive low-cost computer calls to and from regular phones.

The long-expected move could make the Sunnyvale company one of the biggest players in the Internet phone-calling market, along with eBay-owned Skype Technologies, Vonage and others.

Yahoo would not say when it will launch the service, but the date is expected to be unveiled soon.

Yahoo has long allowed people who use its Yahoo Messenger service to make free, computer-to-computer voice calls to each other. But that market is limited.

By Michael Bazeley

Mercury News

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