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Sunday, June 21, 2009

Google Grabs 1 Million Phone Numbers for Google Voice

Google last month reserved 1 million phone numbers with Level 3, signaling that it may finally be ready to roll out its long anticipated Google Voice service. The free service lets users unify their phone numbers, allowing them to have a single number through Google Voice that rings a call through to all their phones.

Google Voice has a number of unique features including call transfer between a user's devices, multi-party conferencing, conversion of voice calls to text messages, cut-rate international calling, and call transcription. But the gem is the fact that a user can have one phone number people can dial to reach them regardless of where they are located, either home or mobile. Google Voice uses VoIP to link collections of phone numbers.

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