New User - How to Help Parents Living Outside USA
SteveInWA:
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What I'm really trying to accomplish is to be able to
Give my parents access to their existing number to make/receive calls to/from anyone in the U.S. without having to pay international calling rates or a monthly fee to some other provider. When a call comes into their number, I only want it to ring in Guatemala. When they want to place a call from Guatemala to the U.S., I want it to go through their GV account with their number showing on the recipient's caller ID.
Use existing phone hardware with my own GV account for making/receiving calls at my house that is separate from my parents' number. This is a replacement for my landline that I've had for 20+ years. No connection to or interaction with my parents' number/account.
Given all of that, I'm trying to figure out
is what I'm trying to accomplish possible?
if so, what hardware do I need?
how do I set up the hardware and account settings to achieve the scenario described above?
It sounds like you are not familiar with the way multiple OBi devices are managed on one OBiTALK account's dashboard.
You can have multiple, completely independent devices assigned to your OBiTALK account. In your case, whatever you want to do with your own OBi at your own, US location, will have no effect on whatever you set up for your parents. Your parents' device would not be calling through any of your equipment.
You'd simply set up two OBi 200 devices; one for yourself, and one that you'd ship to them after setup.
The non-trivial part would be setting up Google Voice for them, because Google Voice will not port in land line/VoIP numbers. You would have to:
First, check that the number can be ported into Google Voice. GV cannot port in every number.Port their currently-parked phone number to a true mobile phone carrier.Wait a full week for the port to complete and be broadcast out to all the carriers.Port the now-mobile number into Google Voice.Provision that Google Voice service on an OBi 200 and then ship it to them.
A simpler, more direct option would be to not use Google Voice for their number. Port it directly into a SIP VoIP service provider like voip.ms or Callcentric, then provision that service on their OBi. I recommend this option, since it is much easier and less likely to encounter problems. Also note that the consumer version of Google Voice is a USA-only service. There is no guarantee that Google will not, at some point, detect and block the use of the device from outside the USA. Foreign use of US GV numbers for fraud has been increasing, and so Google may take measures to block it.
In both cases, they will have a US phone number on their OBi device, regardless of the country in which it is located.
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