Google Voice adds pseudo-mobile number portability

Google has announced a new feature for Google Voice that will allow customers to use their current mobile phone numbers to receive voicemails in their Google Voice inbox.

Before this new feature was available, users needed a special Google assigned phone number to receive voicemail to their Google inbox, but with this new offering, users enter a special code into their main mobile phones to have unanswered calls forwarded to their Google Voice inbox rather than their regular voicemail box. An upgrade from the traditional voice mail system, Google Voice sends voice mails to a users' email account, transcribes them and stores them indefinitely. Landline number portability is still not available.

For more:
- read this Reuters article
- read this Business Week article

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