Landline phone for free?
PennyCat:
I currently have an Obi and am using it with Anveo. While it’s certainly cheap, I would like to pay nothing at all. Does anyone know of any technologies that allow you to keep your landline phone forever, and allow you to use your phone jacks in your house?
I use T-Mobile for my cell coverage, and was thinking that they or another provider might have a solution for this as long as you subscrbe to a cell plan. I also figured you guys would be in the know about this.
GPz1100:
You could use your obi with google voice. That's about as free as it gets until google decides to charge for calls. Use the obitalk portal to configure your gv account to the obi device.
You will need to establish a gv number first.
You'll need to disconnect your pots provider's line from your home in some manner. Usually there's a NID (network interface device) box outside where the phone company's wiring and yours converge. Most boxes have a customer side that you can open. See this : https://citynet.net/page.cfm?mypage=HowtobackfeedtheDigitalPhoneService
In our case we have a NID B type box and just had to disconnect the rj11 connector which severed the connection between the house wiring and phone company's. Plugged a cord between the obi and any available wall jack to provide service to all jacks in the house.
If you plan to use more than 5 jacks, give this a read - https://www.obitalk.com/forum/index.php?topic=5390.0 .
PennyCat:
I currently use Anveo with my Obi100, which is currently plugged into my NID. Shouldn’t I be able to transfer my number from Anveo to google voice?
drgeoff:
Quote from: PennyCat on October 22, 2017, 10:22:30 am
Shouldn’t I be able to transfer my number from Anveo to google voice?
Yes but not directly. Didn't you follow the link on the front page of obihai.com?
http://www.obihai.com/porttutorial
PennyCat:
Sorry didn’t see that.
So let me see if I understand this correctly, I can take an unlocked iPhone I own, get a SIM from TMobile and then port number to that phone? After that I can port it to GV and use my current Obi to place and receive calls on my RJ45 devices?
Are there any limitations about GV that I should be aware of, other than them possibly stopping the service?
ETA: What about 911? How do I get/pay for that?
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