Big ballers The Times Online have nonchalantly dropped the news that Google is planning on launching its own Voice-over-IP service in the UK—and presumably the world. While most of the article is about VoIP and Google itself, The Times speculates that Google’s recent advertisement to hire a “global backbone network” can only lead to the launch of their own telephone service that integrates easily into their always-expanding search services. It’s all a bit tidy, to me, but there’s no doubt that if Google entered the VoIP game they’d up the ante—and public perception of the technology—considerably.
Google gears up for a free-phone challenge to BT [TimesOnlineUK via /.]
