Now Google now started asking for mobile number for creating mail id’s in order to prevent spam and reduce abusive mails and for more security reasons, After filling the Gmail Registration Form you will be redirected to new page asking your mobile number for activation purpose. After entering your mobile number you will click “Send Activation Code to my mobile phone” option and they will send activation code to your mobile phone.
What if you don’t have a mobile phone ?
If you don’t have an mobile phone you cannot able to signup for Gmail account. Instead you may need to ask your friend,s mobile number to receive a code.
Why they made this Feature ?
According to Google this is done as an initiative that to avoid spam and abuse protection.
Is there any limitation for creating Account for a single Phone number
Yes, Each mobile number have a limitation for creating Gmail Account’s. So create Gmail account only when you needed. But they have yet to say the limitation of creating email accounts on a single number.
Update: We can still create a gmail id without mobile verification if we get an invitation from the existing gmail user, But i am not sure how long gmail will accept the invitation registrations.
Tags: Gmail, Mobile verification
Who edits these articles? This is pathetic!
Spammers also have mobile phones. They are not roaming around spamming people like some freaks. They are also human beings and they sure have cell phones.
Even if it limits the number of email accounts a spammer can make, it doesn’t make much difference overall. This is no spam protection. And they should also thin about people using computers in rural areas. They don’t have mobile phones but still they may want to use email.
But as an initiative it is good to collect mobile numbers in order to stop spamming and also in view of terrorist activities it ll be helpful for the investigation teams to track the culprits. . What is suppose is this is a good initiative taken by gmail
It’s pretty amazing what you can do online ..It was not that long ago that you were wondering who just called your when you were not at home. Now you can only see who’s the unknown caller .. and also spy on who’s talking to your lover
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It’s crazy … You can even find the address by a simple phone number.. Wonder what’s gonna come next ?
I have been using gmail accounts to teach mature adults about email. Came up against this today, and of course no-one but me has a mobile phone. So I used my phone to verify their account. The first 4 failed (put in verification code, and were taken back to account creation page), and I managed to get 2 verified before my limit was up. So seems 6 is it, and now I will be using Yahoo accounts to teach my students. Thanks, Gmail!