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  • Google gears up for a free-phone challenge to BT

    01/23/2005 6:32:07 PM PST · by aculeus · 26 replies · 1,319+ views
    The Times (UK) ^ | January 24, 2005 | By Elizabeth Judge, Telecoms Correspondent
    GOOGLE revolutionised the internet. Now it is hoping to do the same with our phones. The company behind the US-based internet search engine looks set to launch a free telephone service that links users via a broadband internet connection using a headset and home computer. The technology that will enable Google to move in on the market has been around for some time. Software by the London-based company, Skype, has been downloaded nearly 54 million times around the world but no large telecommunication firms have properly exploited it. BT, which connects seven out of ten British households, has developed its...