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Goodbye Telco

Facebook + Skype = even more challenges for traditional telco's.

It is only a matter of time before Google Voice is integrated with Google Apps for Business.  Then, both consumers and business users will have viable, fully integrated, seamless voice experiences that push traditional telco's even closer to being pipes, and only pipes.

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