Google Voice Opens To All 185
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.
Re:WTF (Score:5, Funny)
Roughly, the end of WWII. Or if you're lazy, we'll just call it 1950.
Re:WTF (Score:5, 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.
Re:WTF (Score:3, 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. ;-)
Re:On patents... (Score:4, Funny)
Did you license having that impression? You probably should have.
Re:WTF (Score:2, Funny)
Huh? That is the rest of the world! /me waves his American flag
Re:WTF (Score:5, Funny)
403? (Score:3, Funny)
You mean, 403 is not forbidden? [spatula-city.org]
Re:WTF (Score:1, Funny)
3 out of 5 US students can't locate the "rest of the world" on a map.