American mobile service provider and carrier Sprint just announced upcoming integration with Google Voice. The news was made public in a press release yesterday making Sprint (who also own the Nextel brand, and are officially named Sprint Nextel) the first carrier to provide this integration. The plan is to let already existing customers set their current wireless number as their Google Voice number and to be able to use Google Voice without needing to port their numbers out of the Sprint network. This feature will be available to all Sprint customers who have CDMA phones - as opposed to Nextel customers who use the iDEN network with iDEN phones.

“With this integration, we have made Google Voice simple to use with a Sprint phone,” said Dave Girouard, president at Google. “Sprint subscribers now have access to all the benefits of Google Voice behind their existing mobile number without the need for porting or, if they already have a Google Voice number, they can display that number from their Sprint phone without the need for a separate application.”

The planned integration will feature :

- One number for all your devices: Work, home, mobile; no need to change numbers after a move or new job.

- Route phone calls and text messages: Send work calls to the office, personal to home or mobile.

- Conditional call presentation: Hear caller info before answering or send straight to voicemail.

- In-call options: Record calls, switch phones during a call, conference calling.

- Manage it all online: Manage call history, texts and voicemail; listen to voicemail and read transcribed messages; view threaded text messaging history and continue the conversation online.

- Keep your existing wireless phone number without porting Only with Sprint.

Customers can sign up to be notified when the integrated Google Voice experience for Sprint phones at the link below.

This sounds pretty awesome and I can’t wait until Google Voice comes to Canada. Hopefully when that happens one of the carriers here will also partner with Google and integrate with Google Voice.

For More Info:

Full Sprint Press Release here

Sign up to be notified when the integrated Google Voice-Sprint program will be available here

Google Voice home page here

Sprint Nextel home page here