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February 01, 2005
I missed this until I came across it a Susan Crawford's site, but apparently Google is starting up an Internet phone service. The TimesOnline article bases this on an employment ad looking for a “strategic negotiator” to help the company to provide a “global backbone network.” So, if Microsoft is trying to expand by getting Windows into our living rooms, perhaps Google is trying to get itself inserted wherever there's a telephone...including wifi phones, if bastards like Verizon let up their headlock on state legislatures. [Technorati tags: google voip] Posted
by D. Weinberger at February 1, 2005 09:19 AM
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Google posted a job listing looking for someone to negotiate leases on existing dark fiber in the NYC area, and the Times reports the story as they're entering the VOIP market.
Besides the fact that this is quite a leap of imagination, I don't see it as likely that Google would enter this sort of business. Their core business is serving advertisements around content. Everything they do is centered around this. Where does VOIP fit in?
Posted by: Adam Kalsey | February 1, 2005 12:05 PM