The Google Voice terms of service do contain a caveat about reclaiming numbers that have been inactive for nine months.

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If you have intentions of allowing a friend or family member to have access to that data, you can set up the service to notify up to 10 people that your account has been inactive for the time you've specified.

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Google launched the service on its account settings page to give users options with their account should it remain inactive for an extended period of time.

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For the first time, we used a service called "Fakers" as part of the formula to eliminate followers that are either inactive or are fake twitter accounts.

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