Google Fiber Phone
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Google Fiber Phone
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#3Sort of weird that it's something they bothered with, considering home phones are on the out and out.
Edit: That said, I'm sure there are still 100m Americans with phone service, but I don't know that the demographics of people who care to switch to google fiber and need phones are really that overlapping. Then again, Google probably researched this much more than I did. Just seems odd from my perspective.
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#4I wish google fiber would completely take over (especially in San Francisco) where we don't have fios.
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#5Making a play for lifeline subsidies?
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#6A landline phone service seems a bit anachronistic, but there is a place for it. The future of telephony is here, but it sucks. Many here on HN probably don't even remember this, but phone calls actually used to be intelligible. Before cell phones and VOIP, before packet-switching and aggressive digital compression, calls traveled over Ma Bell's glorious circuit-switched network. You could actually understand what people on a conference call were saying, instead of every other word dropping into the digital aether.
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#7So would it be possible to purchase this and use it as a primary phone service on a data-only smartphone?
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#8Sort of weird that it's something they bothered with, considering home phones are on the out and out. Edit: That said, I'm sure there are still 100m Americans with phone service, but I don't know that the demographics of people who care to switch to google fiber and need phones are really that overlapping. Then again, Google probably researched this much more than I did. Just seems odd from my perspective.
E911 service is more reliable with a land line, even if it's VoIP, since the location is fixed. Some recommend having a line just for that.
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#9I get that Google is doing this (Fiber) in order to improve internet service, which is in it's best interest. But I can't help but feeling like there is some other goal here.
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#10So would it be possible to purchase this and use it as a primary phone service on a data-only smartphone?
That's what Fi is for: https://fi.google.com