said by mazilo:said by tom thomas :
would not surprise me if there is a behind closed doors deal between IPKall and google to avoid what would otherwise be very high termination costs.
One thing that puzzles me is why would a giant like Google can't and/or won't establish a SIP server for its GV consumers to freely terminate its incoming calls to a SIP device, but prefers to pay to terminate the incoming calls to other party.
google probably wants to neither provide support or to encourage more people to use GV as a phoneline replacement. part of it is just playing nice with phone companies whom they also do bussiness with through android and apps. if they ever did offer sip i am pretty sure they would only do it for inbound and outbound still have to be triggered on the web; offering free outbound sip would open them up to massive abuse including being used as trunks for callling card outfits; actaully would not surprise me if that was happening via gizmocall.
