Google plans to shut down Google Voice integration with classic Hangouts

Re:Google plans to shut down Google Voice integration with c... by mrtimo on Friday November 20, 2020 @10:11PM (#25167615)

Net result of this action for most people: When traveling internationally, I would use this feature to call family in the US - for free (it only uses data). Now I can't do this anymore, as it will default to using cell networks (not data).

>New telecommunications regulations are being introduced in the EU and U.S. beginning in 2021. To comply with these new regulations, we need to remove the call phones feature in Hangouts. [1]

It appears that the change is due to new regulations?

[1]: https://blog.google/products/workspace/latest-google-hangout...

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Re:Google plans to shut down Google Voice integration with c... by gitweb on Friday November 20, 2020 @10:27PM (#25167668)

As far as I'm aware the call feature in Voice also uses data.

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Re:Google plans to shut down Google Voice integration with c... by Dayshine on Saturday November 21, 2020 @06:05AM (#25169011)

Lets be honest, it's more likely that they don't want to comply with audit requirements for the new regulations.

As opposed to the regulations not allowing voip calls entirely.

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