Good News! Google Voice Invites for Students
Not too long ago, Google introduced a pretty neat phone/voicemail service called Google Voice. Signing up for the service provides you with a single phone number that can be linked to multiple phones (home, cell, work), allows for free text messaging, provides discounted long-distance calls, offers voicemail transcriptions (as text messages), and so much more… all for the wonderful price of FREE. I don’t utilize all the features, but I do like the option of managing voicemail online.
Google Voice is still in beta, and invitations have become a bit difficult inconvenient to come by as of late. I have seen/received several comments saying that invites were not being sent out as frequently by Google. However, good news has arrived! Google just announced yesterday that they are rolling out invites for all students!
The only requirement is that you sign up with a .edu email address. They claim that the invite will be sent out within 24 hours of the request. Note: you don’t have to link that specific email address with Google Voice. You can connect it with a current Gmail account.
So go sign up with your college emails or find a college student who’s not technically inclined interested in getting a Google Voice account/invite at this moment in time! Link is here -> google.com/googlevoice/students.html. Assure them that they’ll be able to get one later when the service comes out of beta. If you have invites, share the wealth 
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For more information about this new announcement, see this Google Voice article. If you’re interested in more information (especially if you’re a Verizon customer), check out my previous blog post -> Google Voice and Verizon.
