Google Voice has been a great way to make and receive free calls to USA and Canada. We have also shared a trick which enables users to make free calls to 60+ countries using their Google Voice account. Now, Google has announced the ability to make voice calls to regular landlines and mobiles from Gmail via Google+ Hangout, and to sweeten the deal calls to the US and Canada are now free from all countries where Hangouts calling is available. So this means if you have any relative or friend in USA or Canada you can call them for free from anywhere in the world.

This is not all, the new “Hangouts calling” also supports conference calling to multiple phone numbers and video participants on the same call, as well as play sound effects with the Google Effect app like applause or laughter.

Google Voice is finally open to registration for everyone in USA without requiring any invitation, the web-based platform for managing user communications unifies all your phones introducing a single number to ring all your phones, voicemail that works like email, free calls and text messages to the U.S. and Canada, low-priced international calls and much more - all for free.

After a long wait I finally received my Google Voice invite but it refused to activate from outside USA throwing the error below, this error can be easily bypassed using an USA proxy but it further needed an USA local phone number to confirm the activation.

To get past the local phone number confirmation all you need to do is to grab a free USA incoming number as discussed in earlier post and use it to activate your Google Voice account outside America, you can find the detailed procedure ahead.