Landline Call Forwarding

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Tack:
I have just set up an Obi110 with Google Voice and my current Verizon landline.  I am planning on transitioning to using Google Voice's voicemail for all incoming calls and wish to know if Obi110 can forward an incoming landline call to the configured Google Voice number without the necessity of me using the call-forwarding feature from Verizon to do the same task.

Thanks.

RonR:
If you have the OBi forward your LINE Port calls to your Google Voice number, Google Voice will see that call coming from your own Google Voice number and will think you're calling in to check your voicemail.

Tack:
Ron:

Not sure I understand.

One of the reasons I bought the Obi110, instead of the Obi100, was to be able to preserve my Verizon account and phone number while I "beta tested" Google Voice (or other VOIP service) to see if it could serve as my only phone service.  Presently, the landline and the Google numbers co-exist and are different.  Given this situation, if the Obi110 could be configured to "call forward" the incoming outside call on the landline to the Google number (SP1), why would Google think that was not just another incoming call from outide?

RonR:
Call your Google Voice number from the OBi's telephone using the Google Voice trunk (probably SP1) and you'll see what I was describing.  The OBi will bridge calls from any trunk to any trunk, but if you call your Google Voice number from your Google Voice number, you'll be checking your voicemail.

If you configure two separate Google Voice accounts, you could use one Google Voice account to forward to the other Google Voice account.

Tack:
Ron:

Excuse me for being ignorant, but what's the difference between forwarding ("bridging") between SP2 and SP1 and forwarding from SP8 (landline)?  Why doesn't Obi pass the landline call and caller ID to SP1, so that Google sees a different incoming number, not it's own?

Obviously, I am missing something.

Thanks.

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