GV no longer free

[Robert Citek]

I just tried making a Google Voice call via the web and got a message
that the call will cost me $0.02 per minute. Not a big deal. But up
until yesterday that same call was free.

Regards,
- Robert

[Bryan Venable]

What area code? They do charge that rate for calls to Hawaii, and
they charge $0.04 to call Alaska. But calls to the lower 48 are still
free AFAIK.

http://www.google.com/support/voice/bin/answer.py?answer=141925#U

[Robert Citek]

Both my number and target number are in 314. Mine happens to be a
Skype number. Don't know about the other.

Regards,
- Robert

[Robert Citek]

I've now tried a few different numbers. It only happens on this one
particular number which is in the 314 area code.

Regards,
- Robert

[Robert Citek]

Aha, Google Voice must have changed their phone number parser. The
number that I had in my contacts looked like this:

314-555-1234,,,,,,9876

9876 was the extension. Up until today GV ignored everything after
the commas so I could see the extension, which I have to dial in
manually. Not so today. I'm guessing that whatever changed made the
number look like an international number. I removed the commas and
the extension, and all's well again.

Regards,
- Robert

[Robert Citek]

Another workaround is to add the country code, 1 for the US:

1314-555-1234,,,,,,9876

That allows me to keep the extension with the phone number.

Regards,
- Robert