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1M Phone Numbers for Google Voice

George R [PersonRank 10]

Friday, June 19, 2009
15 years ago3,298 views

Network World is reporting that Google Voice, formerly GrandCentral, has reserved one million phone numbers. They also speculate that the public launch is imminent.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/061809-google-voice.html

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

Thank you George.
I can't believe they grab 1.000.000 digits. Could it be available worldwide?

dpneal [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

I don't think that anywhere near enough, is it?

George R [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

Google Voice Help discusses the choice of phone numbers. This information may be old.
http://www.google.com/support/voice/bin/topic.py?hl=en&topic=16782

Google Voice:
http://voice.google.com
http://google.com/voice

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Earlier I neglected to credit the Network World story to John Fontana.

WebSonic.nl [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/06/hands-on-google-voice-dialing-up-for-launch.ars

"Google has reportedly obtained over a million phone numbers in preparation for the public launch of its new Google Voice telephony service. Ars gives you an inside look at the closed beta."

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