Google buying Gizmo5 was first a rumor last week and then confirmed. Both Google and Gizmo5 are GIPS customers so I think this is good news for GIPS.

Google already have the highest quality peer 2 peer calling in Google Talk that I use all the time to e.g. talk to my colleagues in San Francisco. Google Voice is the other part of Google’s voice functionality. I have not used that yet since it is only US numbers for their one number functionality.

To get Google Voice to work for me, I have been thinking about using Gizmo5 as an intermediary where I have the Google Voice number point to my Gizmo5 number than again would be connected to my Swedish number. With the acquisition, I think I will wait and see, this is anyway a thing for techies and not mass market.

I think the biggest thing Google gets with Gizmo5 is PSTN connectivity (and maybe also SIP connectivity). How this all will be integrated with Google Talk and Google Voice, I don’t know. It will be very interesting to see what comes and it certainly seems as Google now have all the pieces to have a very competitive offering with Skype.

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