Monday, January 24, 2005


Google has described reports that it is about to launch a free telephone service that will link users via a broadband internet connection as "pure speculation".

According to the Times newspaper, a recent job advert by Google sought a "strategic negotiator to help the company provide a global backbone network.

The job would include responsiblity for IP transit services in North America, Europe, Asia, negotiating for collocation deals and sorting out contracts for dark fiber services. The Times report suggests: "the logical use of such a network would be to help to support a new telephone service."

A second article from website Pocket-Lint suggests Google may choose to offer an internet telephony service via the acquisition of an existing company such as provider Skype.Web-User