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Google Voice Opens To All

Posted by kdawson on from the is-this-the-party-to-whom-i-am-speaking dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google Voice is now open to anyone in the US, removing the need to search for an invite. At the Google Voice site, anyone with a US IP address and a US phone number can sign up for an account. Non-US IPs are blocked, and non-US-based phone numbers are prevented from attaching to Google Voice (with the single odd exception of the 403 area code of southern Alberta)." Good timing on the part of Frontier Communications Corp., which just filed a lawsuit claiming that the Google Voice feature connecting a user's home, work, and cell phone numbers to another number infringes one of their patents.

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  1. Re:WTF by 7213 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Roughly, the end of WWII. Or if you're lazy, we'll just call it 1950.

  2. Re:WTF by Kitkoan · · Score: 4, Funny

    since when US=ALL?

    Reminds me of that joke about the UN poll.

    Last month, a world survey was conducted by the UN. The only question asked was: "Would you please give your honest opinion about solutions to the food shortage in the rest of the world." The survey was a huge failure...

    Africa they didn't know what "food" meant.

    Eastern Europe they didn't know what "honest" meant.

    Western Europe they didn't know what "shortage" meant.

    China they didn't know what "opinion" meant.

    the Middle East they didn't know what "solution" meant.

    South America they didn't know what "please" meant, and

    the USA they didn't know what "the rest of the world" meant.

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  3. Re:WTF by value_added · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is a US-based, and US-centric site. Surely you can understand this.

    No need to shout. You could have said "It's all about us".

    Or something like that. ;-)

  4. Re:On patents... by forkazoo · · Score: 3, Funny

    I have the impression its impossible to do anything in this country without infringing on some patent somewhere.

    Did you license having that impression? You probably should have.

  5. Re:WTF by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 2, Funny

    Huh? That is the rest of the world! /me waves his American flag

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  6. Re:WTF by schlick · · Score: 4, Funny

    We are Americans... Stories about Australia are kinda like watching the show Cops. http://bash.org/?262417

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  7. 403? by Mr+Z · · Score: 2, Funny

    You mean, 403 is not forbidden?

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  8. Re:WTF by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    3 out of 5 US students can't locate the "rest of the world" on a map.