Google poised to become your phone company [Telecom]

[John Mayson]

(Wired) -- Google is set to become your new phone company, perhaps
reducing your phone bill to zilch in the process.

Seriously.

Google has bought Gizmo5, an online phone company that is akin to Skype
but based on open protocols and with a lot fewer users. TechCrunch, which
broke the news on Monday, reported that Google spent $30 million on the
company.

More here
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/11/13/google.phone.service/index.html

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John Mayson <jo...@mayson.us>
Austin, Texas, USA

[Sam Spade]

John Mayson wrote:

> (Wired) -- Google is set to become your new phone company, perhaps
> reducing your phone bill to zilch in the process.
>
> Seriously.
>
> Google has bought Gizmo5, an online phone company that is akin to Skype
> but based on open protocols and with a lot fewer users. TechCrunch,
> which broke the news on Monday, reported that Google spent $30 million
> on the company.
>
> More here
> http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/11/13/google.phone.service/index.html
>

MY Vonage was out for most of the night recently because my cable went down.

Somehow, I don't think any of this stuff can come close to wireline for
emergency access reliability.