Hey! Remember earlier when I blogged about Google steps further into telephony? I ended with the thought:

Now this is right on the heels of GOOG-411 directory assistance and free call connection. Add to that mix the Google Talk client which implements computer based voice calls in addition to the simple instant messaging.

Now I’m just speculating but this small handful of tricks could be the tip of the iceberg. Who knows if they’ll ever connect the dots, you know? That said you could be looking at a company here that could shake a few paradigms if they step into the personal telephony market in any significant way.

I just read another article I saw on Digg entitled Google: You ain’t seen nothin’ yet which explores that idea in much greater depth.

“It’s not an if, it’s a when,” says California-based technology analyst Rob Enderle. “Different parts of this are coming in at different speeds, but once they’re done what they plan to do is offer comprehensive services through their own backbone and effectively lock a lot of the traditional players out of the market. A lot of them don’t even see it coming.”

“These guys are increasingly swirling and swivelling around the telecom space,” says Lawrence Surtees, vice-president and principal analyst of Canadian communications research for global technology consultancy IDC. “If you put all of this together, is Google a search company or a telecom network service provider or all of the above?”

It’s a long piece and these two paragraphs alone don’t touch on the main gist of the article. So I’d suggest reading it from the source if you’re at all interested.