Five months after Google acquired Gizmo5 there are rumors that they are working on a Desktop version of Google Voice. Our friends over at TechCrunch wrote: “We’ve confirmed that they [Google] have now built a Google Voice Desktop application to make and receive calls.”

I think this is pretty interesting and it would mean that Google is going after the huge market share that Skype managed to build over the years for PC to PC calling, and more recently entered the mobile arena with their Skype Mobile App (which by the way will only work if you have your mobile service with Verizon Wireless).

Google could be fitting their present Google Talk PC to PC calling, the functionality of the GV number (which they acquired from GrandCentral in 2007) and Google Voice under one big Google Voice umbrella that allows PC to Mobile to Landline (and all possible permutations).

Add the possibility to configure your VOIP router with SIP and with only a broadband connection at home and (if this was possible) only a mobile data plan, you could talk to a lot of people for free, and be reachable under one phone number, no matter where you are !

So what do you think about all this, is Google slowly but surely stepping into the telecommunication arena and should the big Telecoms be scared ? Leave us a comment !