Google is offering home phone service to select Fiber customers
Trusted Testers get the chance to try it out ahead of everyone else.
Google is expanding the Fiber line to include a home phone service, according to The Washington Post. A letter the publication has obtained is giving members of Fiber's Trusted Tester program a chance to get the product earlier than anybody else. Based on that email, it sounds like Google Fiber Phone will fold in features from Google Voice. It has a phone number that lives in the cloud, delivers transcribed voice mails, screens calls and filters spam.
The service allows you to get a new number or to use an existing phone's or landline's (if you still have one lying around unused) digits. Google will visit anyone who gets approved to install a piece of equipment and will frequently ask them for feedback. A home phone offering isn't too farfetched, seeing as rival cable providers offer "triple-play" bundles consisting of internet, TV and phone services. That said, the Big G hasn't announced anything yet, and it will likely take a long while for Fiber Phone to reach more people if it passes the testing phase.