Google Voice will let you change your phone number for $10
After what seems like an eternity in closed private testing, Google is starting to send out beta invitations for Google Voice (formerly GrandCentral). The company also reportedly snagged about a million US phone numbers to use for the service, which lets users give out a single phone number that will ring all their phones and record, transcribe, and email voicemail messages.
Those new phone numbers will come in handy for new customers. But what if you’re an existing user looking to change your number? I signed up for GrandCentral when I lived in Brooklyn and got myself a number with a 718 area code. Now I live in Philadelphia and feel silly giving out that number.
Now Google is offering users like me a chance to change our numbers. You’ll have to pony up $10 for the change, but since most of Google Voice’s features are free, that seems like a pretty reasonable price.
When you change numbers, all calls made to your old number will continue coming to your new number for 90 days.
[via TechCrunch]
