Almost everyone now has a cell phone, with an increasing number of users also subscribing to a Voice-over Internet Protocol (VoIP) account of some kind (think Skype). With these accounts come monthly service charges and the need to painstakingly monitor your “minutes,” to make sure you don’t go over your monthly limits.
Google first entered the voice arena with Google Voice, which provided Google users with the ability to get a local phone number of their choice, and to integrate the service with their Gmail account. As of yesterday, Google has added the ability of Gmail users to place calls directly from their Gmail account, using your computer’s microphone and speakers, or a headset. To say the service took off might be an understatement.
Google, offering free calls in both the U.S. and Canada, made over 1 million calls in the first 24 hours the service was offered. To put the numbers in perspective, it’s like 1 out of every 3000 phone calls made yesterday in the U.S. were made using Google.
That’s amazing. It will be interesting to see if volume of calls made through Google stay at this level or even increase.
Google first entered the voice arena with Google Voice, which provided Google users with the ability to get a local phone number of their choice, and to integrate the service with their Gmail account. As of yesterday, Google has added the ability of Gmail users to place calls directly from their Gmail account, using your computer’s microphone and speakers, or a headset. To say the service took off might be an understatement.
Google, offering free calls in both the U.S. and Canada, made over 1 million calls in the first 24 hours the service was offered. To put the numbers in perspective, it’s like 1 out of every 3000 phone calls made yesterday in the U.S. were made using Google.
That’s amazing. It will be interesting to see if volume of calls made through Google stay at this level or even increase.
- John and Mike
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