It can be tedious to manage multiple phone numbers—office phone, home phone, mobile phone, and any other numbers. Google’s new Google Voice service can help.
Google purchased GrandCentral Communications two years ago. That service has now been renamed Google Voice. For the last two years, only people who had a GrandCentral account were able to use the service. Google recently purchased over 1 million phone numbers and allowed a limited number of people to sign up for a new account.
Google Voice is a free service that lets users unify their phone numbers, allowing them to have a single number that rings a call through to all of 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. Google also has integrated the Voice service with Gmail contact lists.
The real gem is the fact that you get one phone number others can dial to reach you, regardless of where you’re located. Google Voice uses VoIP to link collections of phone numbers.
To sign up for an invitation to acquire a Google Voice phone number, simply complete the registration form. You will be notified when a block of numbers becomes available.
