Google Loves You

Yesterday Google announced that it has acquired Gizmo5 . Good news?

Well, supposedly, this acquisition will lower your monthly phone bill to zero. All while making Skype look like very old and outdated news. No joke.

So, here is how it will potentially work. Gizmo5, a Voice over IP network, uses open-standards. Very similar to Skype -- mega-super-cheap outgoing calls to domestic and international phones and free calls to other Skype users. So, take Skype and then add all this:

• Free calls to Google Talk, Yahoo, and AIM users
• Free online phone number that will ring your cell, home, and Gizmo5 client devices
• Conference calls
• Call routing
• SMS
• Voice mail that can be mailed to your email

Makes sense? It will become everything that all of the regular phone and VoIP companies have been providing until now -- just all in one... No carriage fees -- no cost to the users.

Thank you, Google!

So, up until now we have felt on the mercy of phone companies – switching plans on us, signing us up for something we never signed up for, charging late fees for on time payments, re-routing our calls to customer service so that it takes about an hour to reach the actual human being -- but new times have come. Times when you and I can talk free… no matter the device, or location, or gender. We have entered into a free world.

I say: We are ready. Bring it.