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... and GV still cant send international text messages. I mean come on....let me pay for it at the very least.

I will gladly pay to send/receive mms, international text.

Its mind boggling that they expect your google voice number to be "the one to rule them all" when it can't emulate half the functions that are considered minimum today.

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(Disclosure: I work at Twilio.)

International SMS is a really nasty landscape. I know firsthand that it's very hard to put together an international SMS product that is anywhere near what we would consider reliable. I imagine if Google offered it, even more people would complain about its unreliability than are complaining about its current absence.

This is a problem that Twilio is actively trying to solve.

As a customer at T-Mobile I have issues sending text messages overseas, or even back to the US when I am in Europe that I completely understand this, and also understand why Google isn't implementing it.

Thanks for the insight. It'd be interesting to know from a technical standpoint where the problems lie, if you don't mind providing a little detail.

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