VOIP Tech Chat → Re: whats google real plan for next year

IMHO, Google's plan is to eliminate GV and instead through hangouts provide a videoconferencing system which is itself incorporated into gmail. Google will drop PSTN support completely.

The current problem with videoconferencing is lack of a global directory and incapable systems. Simply clicking on someone's email address to start a videoconferencing session would be very attractive. If everyone who had a gmail address could be called using a SIP call, it would quickly kill off the PSTN. i.e. gmail would be a replacement for enum.

While I believe eNum may be have less DIDs then Gmail addresses, DIDs for sure are a lot more than Gmail accounts. Let alone Google decided not to allow SIP connect long time ago. Now, Google does not even want third party to utilize their Google Voice. Users must use Google interface to communicate, a lot of people simply will not go for this.