Google is partnering up with San Francisco to give all the homeless people a lifelong phone number and voicemail, if they choose to accept it. Google is using the GrandCentral service to allow homeless people to keep connected with the world, but more importantly to be able to have a number they can use to hopefully get a job, it would allow clinics to share test results, and keep family members in touch.
It is a good idea, what Google is doing, but there is more to how the GrandCentral Service works. Yes, people are able to check voicemail by dialing their GrandCentral number from another phone. But in order to make a call, using your phone number, you need to be near a computer or have a Internet browsing phone. So the homeless people most likely will not have access to this feature. Chances are, homeless people will have to use a pay phone to check their messages, seeing as money can be and is a precious commodity , they will most likely not check it. I know if I was a homeless person, I would be upset if I spent money to check my voicemail and there was no messages.
Well I give props to Google for taking steps to help out homeless people and to get them back on track in their life. I just hope that this idea by Google, isn’t just a marketing ploy to build up hype for GrandCentral.
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