Google Voice Now Gives Priority to Students 66
theodp writes "Holy Logan's Run, Batman! Google on Friday began giving students priority access to its Google Voice service, which has remained in a closed beta since its transition from GrandCentral in March of last year. Typically, invites for the service can take anywhere from a few hours to several months to arrive after a user signs up. But Google is now promising students who cough up an .edu e-mail address access to the service within 24 hours. Good thing CMU closes e-mail accounts after graduation, or old fuddy-duddy alums like Brian Reid might try to sneak in!"
It's actually been quite reliable... (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:World is not US of A (Score:4, Interesting)
Except that .EDU is open to educational institutions worldwide.
Re:World is not US of A (Score:3, Interesting)
The reason that they're restricting it to .edu is because Google Voice is only available in the US for everyone.
There are Canadian Universities that have .edu domains - the University of Toronto has both utoronto.ca and toronto.edu.