Google offers in the United States from immediately a web-based VoIP service to that allows both the fixed and mobile telephony. Within the United States and Canada the service is to remain free until at least the end of this year.

But also for calls abroad, Google is unbeatably cheap with this new offer. So in the fixed network costs often when only 2 cents and foreign mobile networks rarely about 20 cents per minute – significantly cheaper than the competition. Will need a Google account, then the new feature occurs in the chat window of Gmail.

It may be assumed that this new feature is the result of the acquisition of gizmo5 by Google in 2009. The search engine specialist competes directly with other VoIP providers like Skype for example.

If the provider that join the VoIP service could be the killer app for the Android platform. Since there already most of the functions served by Google services, to realize the primary function of a mobile phone in the step would be close. However, this implementation is so far not yet planned, which should be only a matter of time.

The Internet Group leaves open even when you can Germany in the fixed network “Googling”.