Google Voice Available for Every US Citizen

As Google has removed the need for an invitation in order to use Google Voice on Tuesday, its telephony management solution has become open to everyone, meaning every US resident. There are already over one million people with Google Voice accounts, and their number is going to grow every day.

Google Voice offers a service that can be really useful: it offers a single telephone number that, when called, forwards the call to a number of other phone numbers such as the user’s home, office and cell phone as well as offers voice mail services with message transcription. Besides these services, Google Voice offers free calls to the US and Canada, low international rates, web-based voice mail inbox and the capability to make conference calls. The services offered by Google Voice can be used either with the free phone number offered by Google or with the users’ existing telephone numbers.

The company that has developed the Google Voice services is called GrandCentral and has been acquired by Google in 2007. Sign-ups for GrandCentral services  were closed at that time and they were re-activated in March last year when Google started the invitation-only Google Voice service. Google Voice even made it on the iPhone, despite Apple‘s rejection at first claiming that it duplicates the iPhone‘s services.

Do you have a Google Voice?