Number porting to GV - my experience
jimates:
I transferred my sister's number to a trafone but google said it does not support the area. She wasn't really concerned about keeping the number but at least with it on a cell she has an announcement for callers that give her new number. Other wise they would have got no info when calling.
Fasttimes:
Transfer from Vonage to tmobile took about 3 business days. Transfer from tmobile to google voice almost exactly 24 hours.
Google voice took about 3 days to start receiving text messages.
dial.tone:
I'm in the process of porting my home phone to T-Mobile. That should be done tomorrow. After that, I will port the number to Google Voice. However, the GV account I will port to already has a GV number and I will pay the extra $20 to keep it, so I will end up with a GV account with two GV numbers. Here is the question: when I associate the GV account with my Obi202 device, how will Obi know which GV number to use? For that matter, since I want to put one of the numbers on Obi SP1 and the other number on Obi SP2, how will I do that?
QBZappy:
dial.tone,
Quote from: dial.tone on July 10, 2012, 07:35:25 pm
so I will end up with a GV account with two GV numbers. Here is the question: when I associate the GV account with my Obi202 device, how will Obi know which GV number to use? For that matter, since I want to put one of the numbers on Obi SP1 and the other number on Obi SP2, how will I do that?
Hi. I didn't even realize that you could have 2 GV numbers using one gmail acct. The OBi expects each Service Provider slot that gets configured with a GV account to use the following info to "Connect" with the service:
AuthUserName
AuthPassword
Hey wait a moment, I see a problem here.
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OK I'm back. I was reading up on this. It seems GV rings your primary number even if someone calls the old GV number. So either way for incoming your OBi should ring if any of the two GV numbers are dialed. For outgoing it seems that the primary GV number handles the CID. Since each GV offers 2 voice channels I wonder if there is a way to get 4 voice channels in a setup like that.
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jimates:
Everything works as if only one GV number existed. The "new" main number is used for both outgoing and incoming calls. Incoming calls to the old number will be forwarded (within google) to the new number.
So there will still only be 2 simultaneous sessions available. You can't set up the old number to use on the Obi.
Hey QBZappy, I finally reached 1000.
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