Google Sets the Date for the End of XMPP with Google Voice
giqcass:
Quote from: carl on December 30, 2013, 04:32:31 pm
Quote from: dmd1 on December 29, 2013, 11:06:32 am
Anveo's Personal Unlimited charges $2/month for a number with free incoming calls. I just hate to give up GV number completely but I may have to if forwarding to new number is not reliable.
Just port it to Anveo- or even cheaper, To Localphone. Do not forget that on the cheap plans with Anveo you may have to pay for customer service.
Men don't need Customer service. They just need someone to yell at when something breaks. lol
dmd1:
Localphone does not offer 911 services so my plan is to use them for outgoing calls and Anveo for free incoming calls, with Personal Unlimited number, plus 911.
ObihaiCustSvc:
Obihai Update on the impending end of XMPP / Google Voice Support.
http://blog.obihai.com/2013/12/what-does-40-bucks-and-obi-device-buy.html
erkme73:
I'm really surprised that Google is doing this. As I see it, if the service is free, YOU are the product. And in that sense, all Google users are the commodity - or their data is.
Every single call made to or from your Google number (whether through GV, the OBI, your PC, or Hangouts) goes through their servers. The call information, and very likely the content of the call (transcribed automatically, remember?) get vacuumed up by Google. Imagine having access to the contents of millions of phone calls (NSA wet dreams, I know) - but then being able to commercialize that content. As I see it, it's how Google justified keeping Voice going for free.
If you're going to go through the trouble of setting up a DID, or picking one of the upcoming ITSP OBI partners, then why on earth would you not port the number away from Google? Keeping your number with GV will continue to provide them with a record (and content) of every incoming call - and they're providing zero service for it. Sorry, but Google has become Apple.
I've already had heartburn over the NSA revelations (and Google's complicity) - so the last thing I want to do is have 100% of all of my communications go through a single company...
I'm going to wait to learn more about the partnerships. If it turns out these companies offer simu-ring, I'll port. And while I'm at it, I'll kill my Gmail (and cancer-like Google+ profile) as well. As it is, I use an outside host for my email address - and only use Google as a collection point.
Hate to say it, but Google's "do no evil" days are over. Now, what to do about my Android phone... Dangit... They have me by the short hairs.
DrJay:
"I'm really surprised that Google is doing this."
Not sure what the "this" is that you're referring to. Google Voice was never designed to work with an ATA. That OBiHAI used the chat client protocol to leverage the Google Voice service was fortunate for users but not something that was intended or strategic for Google. Google is discontinuing the XMPP protocol support because they're merging the Voice, Talk and Hangouts products into one integrated solution.
Google isn't abandoning XMPP to keep people from using an OBiHAI device for free phone service. They're doing it to improve their own product offering. Being angry about this is like being angry at a cable operator because they went from analog to digital service so you can't use your bootleg analog converter box anymore.
Google and OBiHAI never had any sort of contract or partnership. Google has never had an open API to permit interoperability between Google Voice and ATA devices. It's not part of their business model. This isn't a divorce; there was never a marriage. The parties weren't even going steady.
I didn't wait until May. I signed up for a Callcentric account, set it up, it works perfectly and none of my friends have any idea that I've changed my dial tone provider. Google Voice works exactly the same as before and my Callcentric bills are $3-4 per month with absolutely no change in my calling behavior. I can afford that.
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