March 10, 2005
GoIP: Google VoIP?
Within 24 hours of AOL's announcement that they would begin to offer VoIP service in the next month, rumors began circulating that Google executives were meeting with several Net telephone service providers behind closed doors at the VON 2005 Conference. David Berlind paints a scene of the future of VoIP once ISP giants such as Google and AOL get into the mix and what effect that will have on the telcos and consumers. He calls the theoretical Google VoIP service GoIP. According to ZDNet:
Somewhere, in the not too distant future, our stationary and mobile handsets will have the colorful Google logo on them. In fact, it will be in a little exterior display and the logo will change by virtue of a Web services XML-RPC call when the logo on Google's home page changes. Wrapped into the handsets, the same way that Windows comes with technologies like MSN and a Media Player built-in (and people complain about it), will be direct access to all of Google's many online services from search to blogging to photosharing to shopping to e-mail to a music sales.
Read more: Will GoIP (Google's VoIP) make the telecos gulp?
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