Google Voice for Everyone. Really!?

Google always has been developing amazing applications which never failed. Right from Google Docs to Google buzz all the web/cloud Apps have been amazing. One thing which Google pertained throughout the development and deployment phase is the invitation system.

Well fortunately all the Google Apps have been so great and awesome that they came out of the Beta stage and evolved to something useful. The best thing about this invitation system is that no matter how useful or good that particular App is everyone wants a hold over that invitation.

Way back in 2007 Google bought something very revolutionary, a startup which was called Google Voice from Grand Central. The usage of Google voice is very simple, you register your number, get your Google Voice number and use it as you use without paying any extra charges. It uses your 3G network to establish calls to google voice numbers. 2006 was the year where it was first started by GrandCentral and went under serious testing and development, later almost 2 years later Google introduced Google voice to Grand Central subscribers, the only catch was that it was completely invitation based ( same trick worked for Google Mail, Gmail as we know now ). Now being very successful in promoting via ‘invite only’ methodology, Google has over 1 million Google Voice users.

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Now as we all know Google voice is out of that phase and open for all. Wait what? Open for all!! Without wasting any time I went and logged in my Google Voice account ( I had a invite account, but never worked for me as it was in beta for US customers only ) to check how finally it looks like. But to my disappointment it was still open to US customers only.

Google says that there are now over one million people actively using the service. You can expect that number to balloon now that anyone can go to the site and sign up. So do register if you want to but only US customers would have the please to use it for now.

Google Voice is open, Open for Everyone