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The googlevoice blog has announced that google voice is offering an add-on google voice service for your existing number. For now it looks to be limited to the google voicemail service, but this is still great news. For those of you lucky enough to have a 403 number: Please, if you have a 403 phone [...]

UPDATE: I now have invites. I now have some invites to give out. Get the word out via twitter, your own blogs, and facebook. Remember that google voice currently doesn’t work in Canada, but there are ways around that. You won’t be able to get a Canadian google voice number right now, and unless you [...]

Breaking News Online is reporting that the FCC is interested in Google’s policy on blocking some rural area phone numbers. UPDATE: It’s on the Globe and Mail’s site too now. The FCC’s wireline competition bureau chief Sharon Gillet wrote: “Recent reports indicate that Google’s Google Voice service restricts calling from consumers to certain rural communities. [...]

Not to be left out, the devs at Fring are hard at work on adding 3G capabilities to their application, hoping to be ready to submit a 3G-capable app as soon as Apple opens it up officially. Exciting times.

The Associated Press is reporting on Apple’s response to AT&T’s opening up of their 3G network to VOIP apps. “We are very happy that AT&T is now supporting VOIP applications,” said Apple spokeswoman Natalie Kerris. “We will be amending our developer agreements to get VOIP apps on the App Store and in customers’ hands as [...]

The Washington Post is reporting that AT&T may allow VOIP apps such as Google Voice and Skype to operate on their networks, including on devices such as the iPhone. This could hopefully open up the door to the (re)introduction of some appstore apps and features which would permit the use of non-cellular voice communication on [...]

Hurray! The Globe and Mail has broken the story that Bell and Telus will be able to offer the iPhone starting net month, eliminating Rogers’ monopoly on the device in Canada. We can probably look forward to some lower prices on data plans, and with the inclusion of several small new telcos opening shop in [...]

The @fring twitter feed posted that a new version of Fring for iPhone is coming. Hopefully a few of the issues keeping it from becoming a fully-featured VOIP client are fixed. (in call dial-pad functionality for one). UPDATE: Youtube video introduction. It has now been approved.