The next step is to verify your phone number. You were able to verify your email address through the link they provided you. It appears that your issue is getting the Voxox number. Your replies to text messages sent from your phone will show your cell number, while messages sent from the app will show your Google Voice number. This way texts sent to your Google Voice number will come to your cell phone via the app (data) instead of via text message. Pointster’s Pointer – Select your phone number type as Home number. Most people likely won’t care what area code they get and if you don’t then I suggest choosing a number that spells out your name or matches the last 4 of your current phone number or is somehow easy to remember or is just a lot of fun. Once you have verified your phone number, you will be prompted to choose your Google Voice number. The phone number that you verify will have to be the US based number that you set up in step 1. Once you have logged in to your Google account and navigated to, you will be directed to accept the terms and conditions and then verify your phone number. You can set up a new Google account or tie it to an existing Google (gmail) account. Confirm your IP location is United Statesģ.If it is not United States, you will need HotSpotShield.Here are the steps that are outlined in the screenshots: See the screenshots for a walkthrough on the steps you need to take to set this up. The one that I will walk you through is HotSpotShield, which is a free download available here and will give you a US IP address. If you are not in the US and need to trick Google into thinking that you are, you can use many services, including private VPN services and IP blockers. If the country is United States, you can skip this step. You can check the IP address you are using by going to. To set up a Google Voice account, Google needs to think you are physically in the US. Link link link link link link link link link link link link link link link link link link Here are the steps that are outlined in the screenshots: You will ultimately give out your Google Voice number to your friends and family (see the third step) The only reason you are getting this number is to make your foreign (Canadian) phone number look like a US number. You are not going to be giving this number to anyone other than Google Voice. Note that it actually doesnt matter what your Voxox number is. When you set up Voxox, you will need to ensure that you have either forwarded it to a phone that you will be able to answer or to an email address that you will have access to. If you are in Canada, I suggest getting this service because having it will open up some of the other features that Google Voice has. Voxox is a service that will give you a US based number for free and will forward any calls or texts from that number to your email or to a Canadian phone number. My personal suggestion (and the one I will walk you through getting) is through Voxox. If you already have a US phone number where you can receive a phone call or a text message (not a Google Voice number) then you can skip this step. If you don’t have a US number, then there are a few different ways to get one. As a result, it is not “supported” for use in Canada and there are some extra steps required to set it up when you are outside the US. Google Voice is a service that has been designed for people in the US to have cheaper telephony. You can check out all the great features of Google Voice here. Free Long Distance calling between US and Canada.Some of my favorite features of Google Voice are: This post will be about how to set up your Google Voice account, even when you are not in the US. I’ll show you how to use some of Google Voice’s features to reduce your telephone costs in Canada and in the US including getting free long distance in Canada (even from your cell phone) and getting a telephone line at home through VOIP (data). I particularly hate not knowing if a call is going to cost me long distance charges or not. Some of the things I hate doing is checking my voicemail through the phone system and monitoring how many text messages or daytime minutes I have left. Google Voice fixes many of the annoyances that people have with telephones now, as well as helps to use current communication technology to connect us at a very low price. I am a huge fan of it and I have used it to pretty much nullify my phone bills, or at least drastically reduce them. Google Voice is one of the greatest innovations in telephony.
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