Google Voice

[Chris Bier]

rod wrote:
> Do anyone in the group have a Google Voice account?  What are your
> thoughts/experiences?
> How long have you had it and have you had any invitation become
> available?  How long did you have the account before the became
> available?
> 
> 
> I just got one last Sat.  and my have made the mistake of tiying it to
> my personal gmail account instead of a more general email account the
> the rest of the family can have access to.   I had requested an
> invitation 12 weeks ago or so in anticipation of my daughter getting a
> cell phone.  At the time I was not sure exactly what the service would
> do.
> 
> Now I know and it is rather nice.  I'm able to do some rather
> sophisticated routing and screening of inbound phone calls.  Inbound
> voice mails are transcribed and emailed to my gmail account.  I can
> now receive inbound SMS messages that are forwarded to email.   As for
> outbound calls I can go to to the web site type in a US or Canada
> number and specify which of my phones I'd like to make the call from,
> once I hit enter my phone rings, I pick up,  and I can hear the other
> end start to ring.  These are free as in beer, but likely not so much
> in privacy and personal data terms.
> 
> Oh and I choose the opption where I now have a new Google number for
> the inbound, I was able to match my area code and last 4 of my home
> number.
> 
> Rod

I've been using it as a kind of business number that I give to people
that I don't want to have my personal number.

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