I recently lost my cell phone. Don’t know what happened to it, it just disappeared off the face of the earth. While researching new models, weighing the costs of a dreaded new 2 year contract, and trying to figure out what I would do, it occurred to me that perhaps I didn’t even need a cell phone!

I recently signed up for Google Voice and discovered that I could get free SMS texting and free caller id, free voicemail and a few other features free.   One of the great features of Google Voice is that I can reroute calls from my google voice number to any phone number.    So I started thinking…..

From 8 to 5 I’m usually in the office Monday thru Friday, why can’t I give out people my google voice phone number and simply re-route it to the office phone during this time?   After hours, I’m usually home so why not re-route my google voice number to my home from 6 pm to 9 pm and on weekends as well?

During other times I am either engaged in some activity and don’t want to be interrupted (e.g. at the movies or gym or park or driving).  Do I really need a cell phone for only a few hours out of the day?    Big Telecomms should be very afraid of Google, I know Apple is terrified of Google and that’s why they dumped Google Voice App from the  iTunes store but I think its much more ominous  for Big Telco than anyone thinks because they can’t compete with FREE!