Before I buy...do I have this right?
Ohmytvc15:
Quote from: RonR on February 18, 2012, 06:59:31 pm
Quote from: Ohmytvc15 on February 18, 2012, 06:31:52 pm
When I'm at home i can just answer my cordless phone which will save me cell phone minutes (I could just turn off my cell phone at home).
If you turn your cell phone off, don't calls immediately go to voicemail? If so, Google Voice will consider the call answered and stop ringing the OBi.
I just found out I can call my cell phone provider and they call actually turn the voice mail service off. So I could just turn my cell phone off when I am at home if I want.
jimates:
Quote from: Ohmytvc15 on February 20, 2012, 01:53:42 pm
I just found out I can call my cell phone provider and they call actually turn the voice mail service off. So I could just turn my cell phone off when I am at home if I want.
You can't do that with most prepaid services. For sure you can't with Tracfone or Net10 because that is controlled by the end provider (at&t or t-mo) not the middle man. I am not a customer of either at&t or t-mo, even though I have phones on both networks.
Ohmytvc15:
Quote from: jimates on February 20, 2012, 02:53:53 pm
Quote from: Ohmytvc15 on February 20, 2012, 01:53:42 pm
I just found out I can call my cell phone provider and they call actually turn the voice mail service off. So I could just turn my cell phone off when I am at home if I want.
You can't do that with most prepaid services. For sure you can't with Tracfone or Net10 because that is controlled by the end provider (at&t or t-mo) not the middle man. I am not a customer of either at&t or t-mo, even though I have phones on both networks.
It can be done with Net 10 which is AT&T. Just went into my GV settings for the cell phone and activated goggle voice mail. You send a code to AT&T and then you get a message back about conditional call divert turned on. Recieved my OBi today. Its working great, just the way I want it. Rings both phones. If i turn off my cell still rings my obi phone. Using google voice mail for both google chat and cell phone. I also have it set up so it sends texts to my cell and sends texts for emails. Perfect. Super easy set-up, no more than 5 minutes on the web site.
Thanks for the help, Im a happy camper.
RonR:
Quote from: Ohmytvc15 on February 22, 2012, 02:39:02 pm
Just went into my GV settings for the cell phone and activated goggle voice mail.
When your cell phone provider supplies your voicemail service, you usually aren't charged for the time that the caller uses leaving you the voicemail.
When you use a third-party voicemail service like Google Voice, many (most?) cell phone providers will treat that as simply having forwarded the incoming call to another number and you will be charged for the time that the caller uses leaving you the voicemail.
jimates:
Ohmytvc15,
glad it works for you, doesn't work for me with tracfone or net10.
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