Is their a way to make and receive calls to USA and Canada and iphone with a Google account that has an American phone Registered to it?

Hi, I have and iPhone 4s running ios 8.0.2. I live in the middle east and would like to make and receive phone calls to people living in USA and Canada from my iphone. I have a Google account with an American number registered in it, but unfortunately it seems that I can only send messages and voice mail with my google voice account to USA and Canada because I live in the Middle East. I asked a similar question on another website and one person said that I could get what I want by using a VoIP/PBX account from pxbes.com and use this account with an application called "Acrobits softphone" from the App Store. Also he said that that I can use google chat to get my calls into the PBX account but he didn't say how and i don't know how. Does anyone know how this thing works or any other way to make and receive calls with America and Canada by using my google voice account. I don't care if it costs money as long as people can get in touch with me by using my American phone number.

I have exactly the same concern. It seems it would be a simple fix for Apple to allow users to turn off the camera (and even the mic) while keeping FaceTime open -- especially now that it turns out FaceTime must remain open in order to send and receive iPhone calls on a Mac.
I like to think this new functionality of FaceTime will be baked into a future release of Yosemite, as the current setup has that not-quite-finished feel of a work in progress. In the meantime, there's nothing like a little piece of Post-It stuck over the camera to keep the NSA from watching your face as you type a post to the Apple Support Communities.

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