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Google and Time Warner Telecom - VoIP Partners?
An anonymous reader wrote to mention a ZDNet blog entry by Garett Rogers, wondering aloud about the relationship between Google and Time Warner Telecom. From the entry: "It is rumored that Google has started testing 'Click-to-Call' which links potential buyers to advertisers via phone, but the third party who provides the communication services is still unknown. Could it be Time Warner Telecom who will be providing VoIP services for Google's Click-to-Call service?" We've previously mentioned the Click-to-Call service.
If they pull this one, they'll leave the competition in the dust. If they haven't done so already.
So does this mean Google will merge with AIM? You've got search.
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More News this week about Click to call and Aol Banners.
Microsoft missed this one completly.
Just what we need... targeted advertisements during our phone calls. Like this one I just found on a google search:
Bank Robbery
Products and information about
Bank Robbery.
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Amazingly the advertisers could just put their phone number in the advert...
and then people who care could pick the phone up and dial it.
I know it's a bit 80's but at the end of the day click-to-call just means that
they'll end up calling you, so you'll have to get up and answer the phone anyway.
Why. Make. Life. Complicated?
I wonder if this has anything to do with Google's potential bid for AOL. If AOL goes to Microsoft, Google stands to lose a lot of advertising revenue. So it wouldn't surprise me to hear they're cosying up to Time Warner.
If you click to call them, they don't have to pay any WATS providers.
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Fits in nicely with the dark fiber piece from a week ago. If Google has 300 portable data centers throughout the country, they can provide local dialtone in almost every area code at no cost. I would imagine that any agreements with Time Warner would be for the sort term. This, combined with Google's SIP peering agreements with Earthlink and others to come deals a significant blow to SkypeOut. Watch out Ebay!
It's just a /28 block of addresses!!! NAT not withstanding, it is probably just for transit network that connects their Phoenix corporate office to the Internet.
The call back technology that is being used has been around for close to a decade. I worked on a product integration with a company out of the UK a few years back who offered this technology.
consider twtc doesn't provide VoIp Services, I really don't know where such rumours come from.. probably someone who thinks TWTC = TWX or worse, the cable company.
erm its not rumoured at all. http://www.google.com/help/faq_clicktocall.html
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Honestly, no conrete idea which company they might be partnering w/ but maybe the click to call thing is a hint. Vonage currently offers a feature called Click-2-call which they have as a registered service mark. They also are the biggest VOIP provider and have a lot of infrastructure in place to support this (not that Time Warner and AOL don't... but ehh...).
The other possability I could see, which is a strech could be ebay who just recently accquired Skype, they might be a pretty good contender particuarlly as they have more of an international audience which is probably closer to Google's view of the world (again, not like AOL doesn't).
Just a thought.
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I guess today is a passable day to die.
Can you tell we have TW cable?
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
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Click to Call gives you way more control than otherwise possible through 800 number. :)
For example: you already know which product customer wants. Because you know the context. So no more "For electronics, press or say One, for fish food, press or say Two, for orchids and discontinued flowers, press or say Three". You can similarly omit language preferences. You don't have to use same 800 number with complicated routing (you don't need to lease/buy/use multiple 800 numbers). You can integrate it directly with your call center functions and CRM. And it's CHEAPER. Outgoing calls will be made from the best location (when you have local presence, from local numbers etc).
I'd say that is worth the complication
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If not for the first two reasons, it will save you a lot from your phone bill: (if you ever call advertizers)
From http://www.google.com/help/faq_clicktocall.html:
# Am I charged to connect to an advertiser?
No. Google foots the bill for all calls - local and long-distance. However, if we call a mobile phone number, you may incur airtime fees depending on the mobile phone plan. Check your mobile phone provider for details.
TWTC is a tiny CLEC that spun off from Time Warner Cable and never really went anywhere. They probably kept the name as a marketing thing. Basically the only thing that they are good at is Internet Service. My company used them until a year ago for DS-3 transit, some voice services, and Internet. Internet was rock solid with surprisingly good support if you called, the Voice and DS3 were always taking hits and the people I had to speak to were I swear mental patients who would usually hang up on me or automatically close my ticket without telling me.
Not only that, but this is a real small block: 64.128.207.160 - 64.128.207.175
14 IP addresses? Google is probably just testing out the Internet Connectivity. I don't remember that Time Warner Telecom has any actual production VoIP products. We had a three year contract, and we probably would have stayed with them anyway if they could have switched us over to a (hopefully more stable) VoIP product. They gave us some BS, but it was clear they didn't really have anything. No way in the world this rumor is true. If it is, I'm switching to MSN search.
Click creates the connection between your telephone and that of the advertiser. After "clicking" -- and entering your telephone number -- your telephone rings and so does that of the advertiser. Maybe there will be VOIP eventually, but not now.
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Google owns the bandwidth necessary. Google has the intelligence and the foresight as well, if they can, I would strongly believe they could quickly hire in and develop the expertise to handle these services on their own. This service will not cost Google anything other than making use of existing resources, merely in new manners.
- 1034_3-5537392.html>) And recently I was reading about their newly developed repository hub made inside of a standard transport container. (http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20051117 .html>)They could manage from anywhere in the country easily. Other countries and major regions (Europe) I am sure they would be allowed to plog them down there as well.
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The company has a focus on the end result
There have been many discussion in reference to them buying up large amounts of dark fiber. (http://news.com.com/Google+wants+dark+fiber/2100
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Google is making a telemarketing call to consumers. There is no check to ensure
that the consumer receiving the call is indeed the one who input the number into the
google form.
This is just a scam to get around the "do not call" list. (https://www.donotcall.gov/default.aspx).
Has been useless for months for anything other then a dictionary/spellchecker. Hate to say it but MSN has been beating them at every turn.
And time warner is a laughing stock, they cannot be taken seriously
"It is rumored that Google has started testing 'Click-to-Call' which links potential buyers to advertisers via phone, but the third party who provides the communication services is still unknown." So... this is going to be inclusive of the gammet of spam/advertising that is so rampant on most websites. I would be one of those that would link Google with, or put the company on the same level as, a company that utilizes popups/spam to build business. Google has gone above and beyond a lot of other search engines by keeping all of their services free of 'junk' 'ads' and other unwanted whatever. The cleanliness of the search interface, lack of ads, and excellent search capability is what has kept Google popular. I would think it'd be wiser they keep their business focus on providing exceptional services to users via search engine, gmail, etc. I have always respected Google for their clean image and reputation. Don't bother dabbling in a potentially disastrous or unrewarding venue.