Is it safe to port primary landline to Google Voice?

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SteveInWA:
PhonePower and Callcentric have the flexibility of a small business to manually deal with multiple CLECs to find one to host your number, whereas Google's number porting arrangement with bandwidth is almost entirely automated.  GV ports in thousands of numbers per month, and it just isn't feasible for them to staff up to handle exceptions.

At one time, GV also used another carrier for number ports, but they terminated that contract.

Taoman:
Quote from: LTN1 on October 30, 2016, 06:05:25 pm

Thanks Steve. I just e-mailed bandwidth.com and asked if they could consider my area in the future. Hopefully that could change in the near future.


Certainly doesn't hurt to try but I think your chances are slim. I also live in an area that isn't covered by GV for portability but I live in a somewhat rural area. But even a city of over 80k way to the north of me (Bellingham, WA) that straddles I-5 isn't portable to GV/bandwidth.

I ended up porting numbers I needed to keep (old landline & cell #) to VoIP.ms and using a GV generated vanity number I obtained years ago as my primary incoming line.

jadog:
The biggest disappointment about using google voice as my primary number is that gv doesn't have the ability to use OUTGOING CNAME. So at best, callers will only see my primary google voice phone number, at worst, it will show "UNKNOWN". This is kind of a deal breaker for me, so I'm looking to voip.ms or another provider that has this capability.

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