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Google Voice Discovered Allowing Pure VoIP Calls

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the who-needs-landlines dept.

From the article "Google Voice users learned late Monday that the service now has a way of making purely Internet-based phone calls. Making a SIP call with a 'sip:' prefix, the Google Voice phone number and @sip.voice.google.com skips the conventional phone network entirely, saving users cellphone minutes. Disruptive Telephony tested it and found that a call worked 'great.'"

3 of 110 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Sniffing? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Not encrypted at all.

    Plus Google records all your calls. I wouldn't trust Google for anything. I have no idea why people like Google.

  2. Re:Sniffing? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    You could mean this: http://xkcd.com/792/

  3. Re:Intended? by Eponymous+Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I remember one time I accidentally created a SIP client. I was just trying to compute some fibonacci numbers.