Google bought Internet-calling service from VoIP Inc.

 

Our favorite search engine Google.com is furthering their reach into VoIP. Should make for some interesting services in the future...think they might have bigger plans for GoogleTalk? Of course they do.

In an 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, VoIP said Google agreed on Sept. 1 to test voice-over-Internet-protocol, or VOIP, services offered by VoIP's VoiceOne Communications unit on Sept. 1. Then in October, Google moved into implementation phase, buying VoIP's services and putting in place direct Internet links between the two companies at multiple locations.
VoIP did not disclose the terms of the deal but said it expects material revenue from the pact during 2006. It didn't not gain any material revenue from Google last year, the company said.
Founder Steven Ivester declined to say what services VoIP is providing the Internet giant, citing a non-disclosure agreement.
"We've been working with them for quite some time," he said, and are developing services for Google, which he declined to discuss.
VoIP provides Internet-calling services as well as features like e911 calling and voice mail to carriers and large companies, including Customers Broadwing Corp. (BWNG) and Pac-West Telecomm Inc. (PACW).