Google looking to move into telephone services with Fiber Phone

After its foray into providing high-speed Internet with Google Fiber, Google is looking to provide telephone services as well. Dubbed Google Fiber Phone, Washington Post has reported some of Google’s high-speed Internet subscribers receive invitations to the experimental telephone service. According to the report, the service is similar to Google Voice where the application will let users link all their telephones – landline and mobile devices to a single phone number. The report adds that Fiber Phone comes with other Google Voice features too, such as voicemail transcriptions and automatic call screening based on time of day. Currently available to members of the Google Fiber Trusted Tester program, if it rolls out to a wider audience the Internet giant is well poised to take out the cable industry with a triple whammy of broadband, television and telephony services, finds The Washington Post. There are also reports of Google’s mobile Internet service Project Fi being linked to Fiber Phone in the future, since both rely on Google Voice to provide a network backbone to make it all work with a phone number.