Features of Google Voice Number?

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Features of Google Voice, many retained from GrandCentral, include:


  • A single Google forwarding number to all of the user's phones
  • Unlimited free calls and SMS within the U.S. and Canada, up to three hours in individual length.
  • Calling international phone numbers with rates starting at US$0.01 per minute[51]
  • Call screening. Announcement of callers based on their number or by an automated identification request for blocked numbers
  • Listening in on someone's recording of a voice message before taking a call (press 2 while answering, * to "pick up")
  • Blocking calls from specified numbers
  • Blocking calls from numbers identified by Google as telemarketers
  • Send, receive, and store SMS/MMS online
  • Answering incoming calls on any configured phone
  • Call routing. Selection of phones that should ring based on calling number or time of day.
  • Ringing all of a user's specified phones simultaneously, routing calls to the phone that is answered.
  • Voicemail transcripts. Reading of voicemail messages online
  • Listening to voicemail online/via app or from a phone call to your account
  • Notification of voicemail messages via email or SMS
  • Personalized greetings based on calling number
  • Forward or downloading of voicemails
  • Call recording and online archiving (press 4 while on a call)
  • Switching of phones during a call
  • Viewing the web inbox from a mobile device/phone
  • Customize preferences for contacts by group
  • Initiating and receiving calls via VoIP
  • Ability to change your number for a fee
  • Ability to port your mobile number for a fee
  • Specifying an existing phone number instead of the Google Voice number on initial setup for use with limited functionality, such as some voicemail functions and using the voice mail system for the user's phone number (mobile devices only).


While many customers in countries beside the United States have been grandfathered into Google Voice services, the features are reduced and customers are often charged for calls to their own countries. Currently Google Voice PC-to-phone calling works only for calls into the United States and Canada or for domestic or international calls from the United States and Canada; Google plans to implement this for other countries, but a time frame has not been released. A U.S. telephone number is required to obtain a Google Voice phone number for redirecting incoming calls.

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