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2010-06-23 , 11:24
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Originally Posted by Pigro View Post
(...) a fairly small subset of non-US-resident individuals who:

a) receive lots of calls originating within N. America, and
b) are willing to jump through hoops to set up SIP (or conventional) call forwarding solutions outwith GV in order to route calls originating in N. America to an international destination
...or c) are damned curious on hyped web services and maybe got an invite you wanted to check out before you realized the service doesn't want a world wide audience yet. Unless you have a preference for jumping hoops, I don't think you'd be a Maemo user at all.

Originally Posted by Pigro View Post
then I can see no practical benefit to obtaining a GV acount from outwith N. America at present - GV neither offers international numbers, nor allows forwarding of a V number to an international termination point AFAIK.

@Volt - either I am missing something, or you are trying to out-pedant me :-)
I am sure they will eventually, and till then at least it will work as SIP. There was a worry about not being able to use GV without being in the US/CA, I just pointed out while that's practically true, it's still possible to test the service if one so desire.

Originally Posted by Pigro View Post

*technically* I suspect you'd be in breach of your licence agreement wth Google if you were to obtain an account by this subterfuge (though I haven't read the agreement they presumably make you accept during sign-up, so I may be wrong on that).
Possibly. I do not remember, maybe there's something mentioned in the GV threads here. This is after all where I learned everything I know about GV

Originally Posted by Pigro View Post
- but the point of doing so somewhat eludes me?
I would say it's the same as the point of downloading a 30 dial trial of Photoshop before there's a localized version available for sale. Testing it.
Last edited by volt; 2010-06-23 at 11:27.