Grand Central To (Finally) Launch As Google Voice. It’s Very, Very Good.

Re:Grand Central To (Finally) Launch As Google Voice. It’s V... by jlam on Thursday March 12, 2009 @03:18AM (#513151)

CNET News posted a more in-depth article http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10194446-2.html and gave an answer to a question i had: can i port a number to Google Voice? (No, not yet.)

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Re:Grand Central To (Finally) Launch As Google Voice. It’s V... by calambrac on Thursday March 12, 2009 @09:00AM (#513370)

Cell phone companies have to port numbers between carriers, I wonder why Google can't do it? I would be all over this if I could keep my cell phone number...

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Re:Grand Central To (Finally) Launch As Google Voice. It’s V... by edfrghjk on Friday March 13, 2009 @12:11AM (#514490)

I suspect like Skype they are being careful not to claim they are a telco - so they don't get hit with all the regulation and requirements stuff that real phone companies have. At the moment they are treated like those companies that sell cheap international calling cards.

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