LONDON, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- Google Monday denied a report it is planning to offer an internet telephone service.
The Times of London reported Google planned to use software by the London-based company, Skype, for the service and advertised for a "strategic negotiator" to help the company to provide a "global backbone network," a high-capacity international infrastructure that could overcome reliability problems.
"From a telecoms perspective there is a big appeal in the fact that Google is a search operation -- and of course the Google brand is a huge draw," said Julian Hewitt, senior partner at London-based telecommunications consultant firm Ovum.
Hewitt said a Google telephone service could be made to link with the Google search engine. A surfer could simply click a link within the search engine to dial a desired number.
But PC Pro reported Google dismissed the report as pure speculation.
