Talk is cheap, they used to say. No more. Now, it’s virtually free.
Telephony service, for both voice and video, is increasingly becoming yet another service the Internet offers for free, the way it now does search and e-mail. The latest evidence for this trend is
This is just the latest in a number of purchases Google has made that will enable it to add telephone-style services as part of its suite of products, both for homes and businesses. It already has Google Voice, which makes it easy to manage where your phone calls are being routed. The company doesn’t yet provide actual telephone service, like a mobile carrier such as
Of course, when Google does something, other companies, notably
People complain a lot about the new style of making phone calls, especially the spotty quality of many mobile and Internet calls. You don’t hear many complaints about price, though, and thanks to moves like Google’s today, you’ll hear even fewer in the future.
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