Allows users tracking the condition of the other telephone or the subscriber, for example, there will appear a signal on the screen of the telephone device informing that the subscriber is on the line and is temporarily unavailable.
Because Google Voice provides such a competitive and feature-rich service that not only includes free VoIP and SIP calls across North America and internationally at fantastic rates, in addition to a huge range of services such as voicemail, conference calls and voice transcription, it was inevitable that since its inception it would attract the ire of other competitors who would block it, or sue in courts to have the government legislate against it.