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It'd be interesting if this was VOIP. Then you'd be able to get a temporary (or pseudo-permanent) U.S. number from outside the U.S.



Not sure if they're charging for incoming/outgoing but you could use this to set up a Google Voice number from outside the U.S.A.


You can do that with Google Voice and several other VOIP services already.

I had to do it to be able to post from Twitter to Google+ automatically through SMS (Google+ lacks a proper API).


HeyWire lets you get a U.S number for SMS for free.


Agree!


Even better: if you would be able to choose the country the number should be from… :)




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