Google Sets the Date for the End of XMPP with Google Voice
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Quote from: steveken on October 31, 2013, 10:59:37 pm
Quote from: Felix on October 31, 2013, 09:34:43 pm
Quote from: steveken on October 31, 2013, 07:34:45 pm
I suppose I am one of the very few people who use the phone barely any. I mean, it is usually less than maybe 5 minutes a month.
So, you can have CallWithus and it will cost you (gasp) 5 cents a month. And you can have free WA phone number from IPKall or free NY number from CallCentric. Or you can have both in and out from CallCentric or Voip.MS and it will cost you 10 cents a month.
Let's stop "the sky is falling" nonsense. Obihai is still an excellent device. It used to have a unique feature (GV support); now it will compete with Grandstreams and others. Maybe it will force them to improve their documentation - or maybe they will abandon retail market altogether!
The thing is that right now, with GV, I have a number that is local to me. I do not want to have to give out a WA number or NY number to people if I need to give them a number.
Read more carefully.
Get the free DID mentioned above. Configure your OBi. Forward your google voice number to the new DID. Done.
Nobody but you needs to know.
Now your incoming calls to GV get forwarded to the DID and then to your OBi. Free. And nobody needs to know.
Outgoing calls go thru the new service. Costs pennies a call. Or for the ultimate cheapskates like me, add another service like localphone for outgoing calls. $0.005/minute or various plans up to $5/month for 5000 minutes. That is nearly as cheap as GV for low usage, and still much cheaper than the PSTN.
(Note that localphone bills by the minute while some other services charge $0.01/minute but bill in six-second increments which may be cheaper if you make a lot of short calls. On average you will waste 1/2 of a billing increment per call.)
AntonS:
People who think that Google will somehow let Obihai still use Google Voice are very likely mistaken. Google is not retiring Google Voice, but is limiting access to it. Only Google products like Hangouts will be be able to use it. One can keep your Google Voice number your main number people call you, by provisioning your Obi's with a SIP provider. The cheapest seems to be Callcentric which will give you a free DID number in NY. You can make that number a forwarding number for your Google Voice number. You can also spoof your GV number as an out going call number for free:
See:http://www.callcentric.com/features/external_caller_id
If I understand the procedures correctly you might want to do this first, so that you can use your OBI to verify your GV number with Callcentric.
Another feature seems to be that you can configure on Callcentric for free a second OBI as a sub account. This would eliminate the song and and dance one has to go through to have two OBI's on one GV account.
Does anyone have experience with the call quality of Callcentric vs say Google Voice, or other SIP providers.
carl:
Quote from: steveken on October 31, 2013, 08:09:04 pm
Quote from: carl on October 31, 2013, 07:51:35 pm
I mentioned it before. Localphone. US DID 99c/month, 0.5c/min to lower 48.
Yeah, I saw that, but their rates page kind of confuses me. I am looking at the United States 250 page, specifically. It says "This service requires you to dial a local landline number, that means you may also pay your phone provider local charges." Does that mean you have to call another number before you can call the number you want to call? Or what exactly does this mean? I do like the half a cent per minute, or in the case of the 250, 1/3 of a cent per minute and $0.75 per month access.
I guess I am just very new to all this lingo for this sort of thing. I am just guessing on a lot of terms like DID (I guess Direct Incoming Dial??). I suppose if I spent a lot of time researching this I might be able to figure out more about it, but right now it is all confusing the hell out of me. I don't want a lot of jargon or extra information. I just want a simple, straight forward, idiot proof explanation of fees and benefits from these services and I am not really finding it. I am needing clear info like that because I am going to have to explain and justify this stuff with my wife before I can do anything. She kinda likes to know what's going on with this stuff, too.
Localphone provides a number of different services.
Like : 1. VOIP calling for which you can use your Obi device. Their outgoing rates apply to that ( 0.5 c us lower 48)
2. DID service- free incoming calling
3. Local numbers- you chose a localo number in lieu of a long distance/foreign number and call those numbers to reach your friends. Outgoing rtates apply
4. Calling card services. You have a virtual calling card( which you can also use fromj your cell p0hone0 and call arounfd the world for their outgoing rates
5. Callback service You call an acess number, hang up, the system calls you back and you dial the destibation number.
All the services can be subscribed together or separately each as you wish.
carl:
https://plus.google.com/106636280351174936240/posts/MjyncJEbzxK
azrobert:
Inbound GV calls using a free DID was covered several times in this thread, but I didn't see free outbound calls using GV. You can initiate a call from a PC when signed on to GV. GV will call your DID and after you answer, GV will complete the outbound call. I know this is a pain, but for those that want FREE this is a solution.
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