Obivoice (Intelafone) vs. Forthcoming Obihai Service?
et_phone_home:
So an update:
I signed up for a trial which is a 60 minute/1 month...whatever is shorter. Pretty painless process...i manually set up my obihai device, deleted the google voice account from the device and set the obivoice forwarding number in the google voice account page.
I also set up outgoing spoofing, this was also a painless process.
Cnam works fine even with number forwarding.
Now I have to figure out how to get that 2 year deal for $60.
Edit: I see it in the billings section of your obivoice account page...but I guess they stopped the unlimited thing. Still $60 for two years with 2000 min/month is a great deal.
riptcity00:
Quote from: giqcass on February 06, 2014, 05:24:45 am
Quote from: DrewMan on February 05, 2014, 10:11:17 am
Setting up Obivoice as a Mobile does not affect the time to pick up. It does allow you not to set up GV voicemail on that "device". This eliminates GV voicemail altogether and defaults to the Obivoice vmail.... the way a mobile phone would default to the service provider's vmail. Hope I am being clear.
You are being clear now but that is not how Google Voice works. No one anywhere has ever reported this behavior. If Google did turn a switch to make Voicemail work that way there would be hundreds or thousands of posts complaining about how Google Voice Voicemail had stopped working.
I have not "Activated Voicemail" on any of my Cell Phones but Google Voicemail still works. That feature is only meant for calls made directly to a cell phone that were not forwarded by GV first.
Thanks for the tip DrewMan. I've been testing Obivoice voicemail this morning with this option and it is performing exactly as I was hoping. GV is still capturing calls etc, but I am essentially just ignoring GV and using Obivoice voicemail for all the functionality. Now my call indicator on my wireless handset is working properly again, messages are working between phones, text messages and email noticications etc and I get entire cnam name and number rather than just number in Google Voice.
Are there any downsides to identifying the number as a mobile vs other as far as other functionality?
riptcity00:
Quote from: et_phone_home on February 06, 2014, 09:08:00 am
Is Obivoice one of the "ITSP" companies I read about on the OBI blog site? Or is there supposed to be some other provider that has the same kind of pricing of $40 per year soon to be revealed by OBI themselves?
Does Obivoice support incoming cnam? Will cnam still work if somebody calls my Google Voice number that is being forwarded to a Obivoice number?
I sent an email to Obihai support asking when they might announce new partner(s) etc related to their blog post. The response was the configuration would be available next week, so we should see an update soon.
I've been testing CNAM with GoogleVoice forwarding to my Obivoice number and it is working fine so far. With the addition of new phonebook update features, I've also been able to supplement CNAM with my own list of names and numbers similar to Callcentric phonebook. Unlike the free DID that was inconsistent with Callcentric, this is working every time.
TheoGeek:
Quote from: et_phone_home on February 06, 2014, 11:06:01 am
Now I have to figure out how to get that 2 year deal for $60.
Edit: I see it in the billings section of your obivoice account page...but I guess they stopped the unlimited thing. Still $60 for two years with 2000 min/month is a great deal.
http://www.obivoice.com/pricing/plus.html
They still have the unlimited plans, but the $60/2 year plan is gone (evidently, that was an introductory rate). It's now $75/2 years which is $3.13/month (e911, unlimited incoming and outgoing)...still a heck of a deal.
DrewMan:
riptcity00,
Don't think there are any other implications to posing as a mobile to Obivoice. I am new to this, so could run into something in the future.
I am holding off on porting my GV number in. I like the free SMS Google gives you. Obivoice says they are working on SMS.
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