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Google has launched a phone/landline service for its Google Fiber customers, called Fiber Phone. It allows you to use a "cloud-based" phone number from any tablet, PC, or phone:
For $10/month, you get unlimited local and nationwide calling, and the same affordable rates as Google Voice for international calls. You can keep your old phone number, or pick a new one. You can use call waiting, caller ID, and 911 services just as easily as you could before. Fiber Phone can also make it easier to access your voicemail—the service will transcribe your voice messages for you and then send as a text or email.
[...] Your Fiber Phone number lives in the cloud, which means that you can use it on almost any phone, tablet or laptop. It can ring your landline when you're home, or your mobile device when you're on-the-go. [...] To stay updated on the latest, sign up here.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday March 30 2016, @06:02PM
Me too, I've had an Obihai with Google Voice for a couple of years now... I assumed Google Voice was just a "Google Service" like + and all the rest. It can't use as much bandwidth as YouTube.
Maybe the $10/month is a service fee for people who aren't comfortable setting up and maintaining their own VoIP box and using it as their only "landline" - and perhaps the $10/month also goes toward 911 system compatibility.
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(Score: 2) by frojack on Wednesday March 30 2016, @06:52PM
I think you are right, the $10 probably is regulation fee recovery, such as Emergency 911 Cost Recovery, Regulatory Recovery Fee, Federal, State and Local Services fees and such. All that stuff that is tacked onto phone bills.
Google Talk has not been selling itself as a phone service, but rather just a answering machine service for cellular phones, (with free-ish voip calling tacked on). It makes no pretense of handling 911, because it was originally tied to your phone and only handled incoming calls. (They have since slipped in outgoing via the app).
Every year I get an email telling me "Good news, another year of free google voice". I was worried this would end, and they would start charging for it.
If I need 911, I just grab my cell phone. Our county dispatchers have Phase 2 location, handset generated, (for all cellular carriers in this area) so its accurate to 50 meters.
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