Cananadian Pots line to Google Voice
erocs:
When a person using a Canadian Pots line dials a google voice number in the US, they have to dial 1+area code+number.
Is that long distance for the caller? If not why not?
If it is long distance, is there any way around that?
thanks
Shale:
Quote from: erocs on June 22, 2013, 06:47:18 am
When a person using a Canadian Pots line dials a google voice number in the US, they have to dial 1+area code+number.
Is that long distance for the caller? If not why not?
Yes, with the rare exception of having the GV number be for an exchange in your local calling area,
Quote from: erocs
If it is long distance, is there any way around that?
1. Have the person get an OBi. If the person is a technically inclined and/or sufficiently motivated, that works.
2. Get a phone number, from a SIP provider, that is local to the area you want to let the caller dial as a local call. That is not free-- but very probably less than $3 per month. This will let anybody from that neighborhood call as a local call.
3. Get some kind of unlimited long distance plan from the local phone company... That's gonna cost the big bucks.
4. Have the person get an enhancement to the cellphone plan that has plenty of included air time including calls to you.
erocs:
Thanks very much for the very complete answer...I thought that was the case, but believe it or not a lot of searching did not give me the complete picture.
Now on to the options...just got my Obi110 on Friday, and have set it up with google voice.
azrobert:
There is a free option for a person in Canada to call you.
You would have to get a free SIP service and register your OBi to them.
The person in Canada would call a SIPBroker access number then dial your SIP service code and account number.
First, check if there is a local Canadian access number for your friend here:
http://www.sipbroker.com/sipbroker/action/pstnNumbers
If you want to go this route post back here and I will walk you thru the setup.
erocs:
Quote from: azrobert on June 22, 2013, 12:16:33 pm
There is a free option for a person in Canada to call you.
You would have to get a free SIP service and register your OBi to them.
The person in Canada would call a SIPBroker access number then dial your SIP service code and account number.
First, check if there is a local Canadian access number for your friend here:
http://www.sipbroker.com/sipbroker/action/pstnNumbers
If you want to go this route post back here and I will walk you thru the setup.
thank you
This is what I get when I look up my City
Winnipeg +1-204-2720207 DIDWW 2 concurrent calls supported
Winnipeg +1-204-480-4085 LES.NET
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