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People placed more than a million calls with Google's (News - Alert) new phone service in its first day of operation, according to a news report this week.

The Vancouver Sun reported that the quality of the calls is similar to Skype (News - Alert) and other voice-over-Internet services.

Voice in Gmail, which was introduced Wednesday, lets users call cell phones and land lines from their Google e-mail accounts, the Sun reported.

 The service is available in Canada and the United States, and calls in these two countries are free.

Calls will remain free at least until the end of the year, according to the newspaper.

The service is different from Google Voice, a service that forwards calls to an existing phone number.

In contrast, there’s a more efficient way of delivering voice traffic than using the PSTN. It’s called voice peering. Since launch of the Voice Peering Fabric (VPF) in 2003, the unique model of VPF has changed the landscape of the telecom industry by moving telephone calls into the IP domain bypassing both the public telephone system and the public Internet. Drawn by its security and quality attributes, enterprises, government agencies and service providers have made the VPF their preferred platform for buying, selling & exchanging telephony related services.