Google has interesting plans for VoIP Call Service. Google Voice for everyone . So the Internet giant announced the opening of its free service call , which since its launch a year ago could only be accessed by invitation of the company or of any user. A controversial technology , similar to Skype, which was the subject of an investigation by U.S. regulators as a result of complaints raised by the large telephone operators.
The Voice can bring together all phones , especially mobile-office and in managing a single number and receive calls over the Internet. When you subscribe, the user can make free calls to numbers in the U.S. and Canada. The platform serves well as voice mail and sending instant messages . The cost of international calls is very competitive. The Voice uses technology developed by Grand Central , which was acquired by Google in July 2007 after disbursing $ 95 million to its creators. When it seemed that the project was abandoned, the company launched the service in March 2009 .
Its weakness is being in the integration with social networks like Facebook or Twitter. The system was so far in test mode. “Today, after thinking a lot about , we announced that Google Voice is open to the public invitation is no longer necessary , “announced the company’s blog. Blackberry phones and interactive using the Google Android operating system and have programs to make calls.
Apple’s iPhone , however , rejected the use of this technology. AT & T , which exclusively markets this phone in the U.S. , opened a lawsuit against Google in October and looking for the regulator of the telecommunications market (FCC , in its acronym in English ) consider the Voice as a traditional telephony services , for use the existing network. In fact, what difference is that Skype Voice service is not to make calls from PC to PC (VoIP ), a deficiency that will address the recent purchase of Gizmo5 .
Google explains on his blog that this combination of traditional telephony and the web is the sample “of how far communications ” have arrived since the first telegraph message sent in 1833. The service does not work in Europe.
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