Question about OBiTalk and Google Voice
SteveInWA:
Since you are making a point of this, *I* am making this point:
Many people ignore explanations like mine, because they are foolishly lured by the come-on of FREE CALLING! FREE CALLING! FREE CALLING! FREE CALLING! FREE CALLING! FREE CALLING! FREE CALLING! to think that an OBi device + GV = free phone company. It does not. It cannot call E911. It is not meant to be a standalone, bare-bones SIP ITSP.
Do you understand now? Yes, Google Voice can make free calls to Canadian and other US phone numbers. Yes, it can receive phone calls for free. No, it is not a bare-bones ITSP.
olrowdy01:
Steve wrote:
It cannot call E911. It is not meant to be a standalone, bare-bones SIP ITSP.
Do you understand now? Yes, Google Voice can make free calls to Canadian and other US phone numbers. Yes, it can receive phone calls for free.
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I can call 911 on one of several no plan cell phones if necessary. I carry one with me all the time.
I've been using Google Voice for 9+ years. My concern was how the OBi202 + OBiTalk interacts with GV.
Yep, that was the clear answer(s) I was looking for.
Thank you.
SteveInWA:
Well, if you've been using Google Voice for 9+ years, then you already understand how it makes and receives "free calls". OBiTALK devices are simply SIP clients that connect to your Google Voice account and behave as forwarding destinations, just like using Google Hangouts or a 10-digit PSTN telephone number.
I think you're all set now.
drgeoff:
Quote from: olrowdy01 on July 23, 2018, 03:52:15 pm
My concern was how the OBi202 + OBiTalk interacts with GV.
I'm not convinced that you understand what "Obitalk" is and what it does.
olrowdy01:
Quote from: drgeoff on July 23, 2018, 03:56:20 pm
Quote from: olrowdy01 on July 23, 2018, 03:52:15 pm
My concern was how the OBi202 + OBiTalk interacts with GV.
I'm not convinced that you understand what "Obitalk" is and what it does.
Probably not. I assumed OBiTalk was necessary to set the OBi202 up etc and with good luck it would then be the ATA somewhere in the background and allow me to use Google Voice as I have for many years. I'm used to Google Voice being the portal to my telephone activities when I happen to get a message with my PAP2T just being a dumb ATA.
After reading the OBiTalk Administrator and Provisioning Guides and seeing that OBiTalk was necessary to load the OBi202 with all the settings etc (which I normally do manually) it seemed that OBiTalk could/would also be my main contact with controlling my telephone system rather than Google Voice.
Especially so when I saw the features of OBiExtras. My first thought was "WHOA .... I don't need all that stuff!" I just need a phone to call out maybe once/twice a MONTH and get nothing but sales calls which my answering machine gets rid of. (Just load the "disconnect tones" as the opening part of your greeting message.) ;D
If there is a link to a more detailed description of what OBiTalk can do I'd be happy to read it.
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