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How Google Will Become Your Phone Company - Datamation
From the article: "Phone service today is clunky, feature-limited and way too expensive. And in this problem Google sees opportunity. By providing very low-cost, very richly featured telephone service – by becoming your phone company – Google can also make you a user of its chat, email, social networking, texting and video chat services which, ultimately, will be a single super service accessible with a single sign-on – not to mention a user of Android. Google is already a phone company. All they need now is a hybrid calling plan to become your only phone company."

Meet Google, Your Phone Company
Can Google be your phone company? Suddenly the idea of Google as my phone company doesn’t sound so preposterous.

Google: Your new phone carrier?
Google: Your new phone carrier? ... it could tackle: Becoming your telephone company. Google has ... The next steps: So what does it all add up to? Would Google ...

Google Could Get a Chance to Buy T-Mobile After It Closes Motorola Deal
From the article: "Now that Google has shown that it's interested in more than just managing information through its purchase of Motorola, the company may well be interested in owning the complete information universe."

Creating the First Fully Integrated Information Company
From the article: "So would Google buying T-Mobile be the beginning of a global mechanism for delivering any information anywhere?"

TMobile’s for sale – Google should buy
Premise: As Google makes further inroads into the telecom industry with Google Voice, and devices such as the Nexus One, they are in direct competition with the U.S. wireless operators. T-Mobile USA is potentially for sale, and it makes sense for Google to purchase this GSM operator and pick up 33 million subscribers.

Google, Motorola, T-Mobile a Holy Trinity?
Could Google effectively run a telco?

Should Google Buy T-Mobile?
From the website: "Google certainly has deep enough pockets to afford it and there probably would not be any regulatory challenges"

Should Google Buy T-Mobile?
From the article: "With Google Voice and now the Nexus One, like it or not, Google is becoming a telecom operator,” the GLG analysis says. “I believe Google views the largest U.S. operators as competitors and are obstacles to owning the mobile channel, and if they purchased T-Mobile they would pick up 33 million new Google Voice users."