Workarounds for ongoing troubles with "Add a Device"

In another long-running thread, it seems clear that "add a device" has not been working properly since at least November, and possibly earlier than that. The "workaround" (not entirely reasonable workaround, but hey) is to "just keep trying."

There does not seem to have been any official communication from OBihai/Polycom even *ACKNOWLEDGING* the issue, let alone explaining what has happened or offering an ETA for the service to be properly online once again.

Unfortunately, this leaves many users looking to set up their device with Google Voice out of luck.

However, if there were some alternative service making a similar free offering, we'd be able to manually configure that using the OBi device's own administrative interface.

to that end, then, let's hear some recommendations for free DID+SIP trunk services...