Yes, but Google Voice is only available in the US. I have my Google Voice number forwarding to my e-mail which is nice. Of course, just actually using e-mail would be preferable. With e-mail I have one permanent address that hasn&#x27;t changed in 15 years, and won&#x27;t change anytime soon. Hangouts+SMS seems more like a bridge to the pre-mobile-internet era to me, a time when people were identified by a location-dependent number instead of an nice, worldwide alphanumeric identifier.<p>Nevertheless, a lot of operators&#x2F;countries either don&#x27;t have or don&#x27;t want to allow these kind of gateways, for whatever reason. A purely IP-based solution would get around these restrictions.