Posts Tagged ‘Google Voice’

Today, the Puerto Rico Statehood Students Association unveils a new series of posts title the Insular Consumers. This series will focus on the treatment of consumers in Puerto Rico by companies mainly based on the 50 US States, highlighting the cases where Puerto Ricans are treated unfairly despite being US Citizens and residents in a US Territory.

Earlier today, technology blog Engadget published a piece on a new service from phone service provider Sprint and search giant Google. Both companies partnered to offer all Spring consumers Google Voice, a free service that enables users to store voicemails, manage multiple phone numbers, screen phone calls among many other features. The article is of interest because as Engadget notes “readers in Puerto Rico remain unable to activate regardless of their account status, and was unable to provide as estimate as to when integration will be available there”.

As it stands, Google Voice is not available to Puerto Rico residents, regardless of whether they are Sprint customers or not. When attempting to sign up for the service users receive an error message indicating that Google Voice does not work with international numbers.

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