Google Sets the Date for the End of XMPP with Google Voice
Ostracus:
Quote from: carl on October 31, 2013, 05:59:29 pm
How is your Obi "useless" ? There is a ton of excellent VOIP providers out there. Yes, you have to pay a tiny little bit but you get much more than from Google Voice.Look at localphone.com, $0.99/month for US DID and 0.5c/min to the lower 48 and a real customer service and a lot of other services. Or Callcentric, a bit more expensive but a truly professional full featured phone service.
Yes, we all enjoyed free ride with GV but honestly, no big deal.
Obi will be probably more likely to help with configuration for SIP in the future than they have been so far.
Their ability to deal with spam calls was a plus in their favor.
carl:
Quote from: Wilbour on October 31, 2013, 08:13:16 pm
I have been using my Obi110 for a year and a half now with great success. We have family in central NY who call my NY # at no cost to them. That rings my Canadian cell and my home phone (via OBi). Could I opt for a free Call Central # in NY and forward my Google voice # to that #? My relatives will not pay for the call and my reprogrammed Obi110 can ring my home phone and google voice will ring my Canadian Cell? When I call them with the OBi110 it is a local call?
Free NY # is charged for 911 though right?
This is a whole new world for me and I only have 6 months to figure it out :D
You mean Callcentric. yes, you can do that, as a matter of fact many people already do it because you get full caller iD with name.
FRUGALFREAK:
Quote from: carl on October 31, 2013, 07:17:22 pm
Quote from: FRUGALFREAK on October 31, 2013, 06:36:58 pm
A good majority of users want a simple fee structure of per month fee for unlimited service. None of the alt services listed on announcement seemed like a good fit for those people. I don't want technical configurations, SIP, XMPP blah blah blah, Just offer me a nominal fee for unlimited service instead of per Min billing and ease of setup with my Obi.
I doubt the "Good majority" but for example VOIPO is like that.
$75 a year? thanks but no thanks. magicjack is $19.95 yr but isn't obi.
carl:
Quote from: Ostracus on October 31, 2013, 08:30:40 pm
Their ability to deal with spam calls was a plus in their favor.
True. But their call treatments are somewhat buggy and not quite reliable. The biggest aggravation for me will the estimated $ 56 in porting costs for my 2 numbers. But i am not moving anything till February.
carl:
Quote from: FRUGALFREAK on October 31, 2013, 08:40:34 pm
$75 a year? thanks but no thanks. magicjack is $19.95 yr but isn't obi.
Currently, the true total costs of magic junk are WAY more than 19.95 a year. Additionally, the ' service " is so miserable That VOIPO, with all it's issues, looks stellar compared to that foolishness. I would not want magic junk any more if it were for free.
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