Why all those free app-style USA numbers cannot receive Google Voice code?
TTCP:
Hi, I am not sure whether this is the correct place to ask the following question. So please pardon my ignorance.
I am in Canada, and I would like to get a Google voice number. So I applied for a free USA phone number from those apps, like TextNow, TextFree, NextPlus, etc, as Google requires you to have a US mobile number in order to apply for a Google Voice number.
But the problem is that none of those free app-style USA numbers can receive Google Voice verification code. Does somebody know why?
Is it that Google knows this trick so that they deliberately block this kind of numbers, and only a real fee-paying cell phone number can receive such code?
Or is it that that all these free app-style US number providers subscribe to the same low-cost budget telecom carrier like Sprint and the Sprint network is unable to receive Google Voice verification code?
SteveInWA:
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Is it that Google knows this trick so that they deliberately block this kind of numbers, and only a real fee-paying cell phone number can receive such code?
Yes. You can't game the system. Google Voice is intended to be a USA-only service.
vtsnaab:
Why not get a free DID from Callcentric ??
They give away free NY numbers.
SteveInWA:
If that was an option, I would have said so.
You cannot use a Callcentric DID as eligibility to claim a Google Voice number. As I've said before, Google has had to tighten its eligibility requirements, due to people abusing the service (e.g. using it as a source of multiple free VoIP trunks, or using it for robocalling, telemarketing, and other illegal activities).
vtsnaab:
I'm sure they have expended great efforts to enforce their own rules; after all, the big G is about the most powerful corporate entity currently existing and its will is made to resemble a force of law these days in many ways.
All the same (and yes, I am within US boundaries):
I did have to re-verify GV recently when changing wifi-only devices around.
The phone it wanted to 'verify' is not activated on a provider, has no number of its own and is used with Textnow, SIP and GV only.
The verification was done by carefully examining the options offered - one worked fine.
Also, there are many posts - some even recent, to be found by searching, about how folks outside of the US can get & verify for a GV number.
The big G has not yet made it totally impossible from what I can see.
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