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Google Voice now available in Hawaii, Alaska

Google Voice
Google Voice is a free service that lets you route all of your phone calls through a single number, access your voicemail on the web, receive automated transcripts of your voicemails via email, and make VoIP phone calls. There are just two catches:
  1. It's still in private beta, meaning you need to request an invitation to use the service.
  2. Google Voice is only available in the US.
Up until today, that second point would have read continental US. But today Google expanded the service to include Hawaii and Alaska. Google Voice users can now make free calls to and from Hawaii and Alaska. And you can forward your Google Voice phone number to a phone in either of those two states.

It's not exactly the international rollout many people are waiting for. But it's a baby step.
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