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Google Voice Leaves Beta, Now Open to Everyone (lifehacker.com)
6 points by Chirag on June 22, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 10 comments



Until we can fwd multiple GV lines to a single cell phone, it will be useless to many!


I had been thinking of renting out a condo of mine. The catch is that I have an out-of-area cell phone number and want potential tenants to be able to make a local call. I'd gladly pay even $20 or $30 to buy another line on my GV account in another area code.

In the meantime I've been playing a bit with Twilio's OpenVBX and maybe I might just use it to create a number with recorded information about the place and an option to leave me a message.


Until we can forward a GV line to another GV line and do that 10-20 times, so that when the FBI/CIA/NSA is trying to trace a call the guy in the computer room keeps shouting "He's in Berlin! No wait, he's in Detroit! Now he's in Boston...the bastard is routing his call through multiple cities!" it will be useless to many.


right, or maybe some people work on multiple projects with different phone numbers..

not remarkable, maybe next time


Apparently open to everyone doesn't mean everyone... (Yes, i am not US citizen).


I think it just requires residency, not citizenship.


It atleast requires a US IP. I'm living in Europe and can't sign up.


And that is what US-based virtual hosts or free shell accounts are for. :)


very interesting meaning of the word "everyone" - actually means hardly anyone in the global context - not even anyone in the European context as far as I can see.

so not true then - just parochial USA stuff...


If only it was available in Canada :(




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