Will Google Voice be free in 2013
onepolarbear:
Quote from: jjtricket on September 12, 2012, 08:29:28 pm
We know a gal who is a fortune teller and she says GV will be Free in 2013.............
my fortune teller told me to buy 11 PowerBall tickets during the 3rd week of February 2013. I had to sign an agreement to give her 42% of the jackpot.
HHinFlorida:
I think we all understand that Google is not likely to make an announcement until at least a few more days (if ever), but does anyone have a good understanding of why they do this to us?
My situation is that, if I knew it was going to be free, or if I knew what the charge would be, then I could budget for it and make plans to release my GV number at a moment convenient to me.
But not knowing simply means I cannot give anyone a number that I am uncertain I can keep. Which makes GV unusable to me for incoming calls. My fears are:
1. I don't know what is going on or why google follows this policy of giving effectively no notice - which is unnerving in itself and doesn't pass the smell test of a reliable supplier in many other walks of life.
2. Or I fear that they may choose to make it gratis to googlefolk who are money cows as to all sorts of other google products (which are of little interest to me) and the most expensive in the industry to unwanted outsiders to a point of great needless expense. And I will be seen as an outsider. (I prefer the clarity of the words gratis and libre to the ambiguous free)
An incoming number with callcentric is basically $6/month with no per minute charges and for most general purposes. Excluding special offers that have strings or catches that is. If google had announced they would charge less than that (anywhere between $0.00 and $6/month for unlimited incoming) then I could use their service.
So my question, in simple terms is, why do they do this to us??
Rick:
Because it's not a priority to them. It's a free service. They don't make anything off of it, so they announce it when they feel like it. Your "if ever" makes no sense as they've announced in late December each year, so they should do so again.
Google doesn't care if you're uncertain, if you switch to Google Voice or not. They don't care if you use an OBi, it's not even on their radar screen. Google Voice is way, way, way down their list of important things, all the way to the list of "Hey Fred, did you take care of that before we go home for Christmas"?
That's why. ;)
Lavarock7:
Give people your Google Number. If Google changes things, they said for some fee, like $25 you can port away. Although other VOIP services usually charge to port TO them, I would bet that most of them would waive that fee to get the mass of GoogleVoice customers who would jump ship.
You must know that whether a phone number or email address remains forever is not that big a deal. With a search engine or call forwarding, etc, it is easy enough to change business cards and stationary.
Delta Airlines used to not own Delta.Com. In fact, they started out on the web as DeltaAir.Com. Imagine their cost to change a domain name.
I guess also, that if $6 a month is a deciding factor for you as to which service you choose, perhaps pay the $6 and be done. I would not use GoogleVoice for a mission critical (ie business use) if the changeove to someone else it that much of a worry for you.
northernarizona:
I'm thinking if there were fees to be charged in January, wouldn't we have been given a notice by now? ???
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