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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.'"

2 of 110 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Sniffing? by Onuma · · Score: 5, Informative

    Unless I'm misreading the chart, it seems like gvoice has SRTP encryption.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_VoIP_software

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  2. 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.