Google Voice is a Threat to Telephone Companies and more  

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As talked about today in class, Google Voice is intended to make it easier to manage phone calls, text messages, and voice mails. This ingenious application will allow users to route multiple phones together to ring simultaneously as well as manage voice mails easier. Voice Mail is a pain, you have to call it, then type in your password, and listen to the boring voice repeat choices over and over again. Now you will be able to access voice mails on any phones and easily delete them or save them in one location.

Google Voice will have a competitor though and that is Skype, which is owned by eBay. Skype is an internet phone call where you can instantly chat with friends. Although Skype is not a direct competitor it will be a significant indirect competitor and may see sales fall with the introduction of Google Voice. The article also speaks about how telephone companies will be affected and it looks at analytics to see how and when.

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1 comments

Lauren Bolger   says May 2, 2010 at 3:46 PM

I think that Google Voice will definitely have an impact on telephone companies. Google Voice is becoming a competitor since you can avoid text message rates and use Google voice instead. Personally, i think this was one of Google's best developments that as people become more aware of it, they will start to use it more and more.

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