Google Voice and Google Fi
restamp:
A friend recently ported her home number to Google Voice and her cell number to Google Fi. And then she ran into a problem: Google does not allow GV numbers to be forwarding phones. OK, fair enough. But, they apparently lump Google Fi numbers in the same category. Therefore, my friend could not set up her GV number to ring both her OBi at the house and her Fi number simultaneously. This doesn't make sense to me: It would appear this is precisely the market that Google claims to be catering to. Can anyone explain why they would cripple their own cellular network?
(I was able to program the OBi to both ring the local ph1 line and forward the call to her Fi phone by crafting a special X_InboundCallRoute, but this is not ideal: First, the latency is twice what it normally would be, making such a forwarded call painful to conduct, but also the calling number is not transmitted to the Fi phone. Can anyone recommend a better solution?)
SteveInWA:
Google Voice and Google's Project Fi use the same back-end infrastructure, so Fi numbers are essentially GV numbers. You can't forward one GV number to another, because of all of the call-forwarding and text message forwarding included with each account's number. It's a technical limitation, not a business decision. Perhaps, in the future, Google will engineer a way around this, and they know it's on the "wish list" of features to be added.
See this for more information: https://support.google.com/fi/answer/6159953
restamp:
Thanks, Steve, for clarifying and verifying what I had suspected.
Boomshnka:
I'm facing the same conundrum and was wondering if you would share the syntax of the X_InboundCallRoute you've created. I'v got GV on SP1 and have been trying the following, "{ph, sp1(XXXXXXXXXX)} but it's never ringing on my cell phone. Thanks.
drgeoff:
Assuming that those ten Xs represent the actual digits of your cellphone number and you are not putting that opening " into the OBi, then you have the correct syntax for forking an incoming call to multiple endpoints.
But why do you claim to have the same conundrum as the OP? You are not trying to forward to a Google Fi number.
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