Google Voice 吸引大量用户注册的原因之一是其提供的免费国际短信发送功能。然而最近一些用户在发送国际短信後开始收到发送失败的消息: “Error: this message was not successfully delivered.”。现在, Google Voice 至少已无法向中国大陸发送短信。

在 Google Voice 支持论坛的一则消息得到了一名 Google 雇员的回覆, 回覆中说

International SMS has never been officially supported by Google Voice but enough users started using it nonetheless for certain destinations where it worked that we had to actively prevent it until we can bill for it. We are working on a comprehensive international SMS coverage, which we plan to make available at very low prices soon.

(Google Voice 从未正式支持国际短信服务, 尽管足够数量的用户能够成功地向部分地区发送短信。我们正积极避免这种行为, 直到我们可以为此功能记账。我们正在努力实现全面的国际短信覆盖, 并计划以很低的价格提供这项服务。)

美国国内的短信服务未受影响。

来源：http://subacme.rerouted.org/2010/06/google-voice-stops-free-intl-sms/