[Hidden-tech] Google Voice

[Joseph Steig]

Google Voice does nothing at all that would improve cell phone reception at
your home!

And no, you can't do invites as you could with GMail. You can sign up for
Google Voice and eventually they will get back to you with a number. Google
Voice provides a "one number to rule them all" that you can use to flexibly
redirect calls to other numbers, like your home number, your mobile etc. And
it's got free voicemail transcription and a bunch of other features, with
more to come. But calls out require the use of another device (landline,
mobile phone etc). Essentially what it does it produce a conference call
between your device and the number that you are calling. What's the good of
that? International calls for cheap, mostly.

The devices that do improve mobile phone reception are called femtocells.
Verizon, AT&T and T-mobile have launched these (or are just about to) .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femtocell

They work by connecting to the broadband in your home and making use of that
to provide range limited mobile phone coverage. I believe that if you have a
Verizon one, for example, AT&T phones won't be able to make use of it and
vice-versa.

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On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:13 AM, J. Cohen <ht at westernmasswebdesign.com>wrote:

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>> Google Voice was mentioned in the discussion about improving cell phone
>> reception at your home.
>> Does anyone have an invite they could spare?
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> I looked for Google Voice invites in my account, but I don't think there is
> any way to invite people.
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> Josh
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