CID Problem
gderf:
There is no reason to port out of GV for incoming calls so long as you have one or more forwards to one or more DIDs that work to your satisfaction.
The larger problem is making outgoing calls with GV once XMPP is shut off.
J4545:
Thanks all for the clarifications.
Nothing is free. If it appears to be free, then it is a loss-leader or a market exploration and data collection effort. I always knew GV would change or even go away completely.
I think I can somehow survive paying Callcentric 2 cents a minute when I want to make a call from my Obi ;) Just the entertainment value of a build-your-own communication system is worth it.
gderf:
You can do better than 2 cents a minute just about anywhere. In some case a lot better.
carl:
Quote from: J4545 on February 21, 2014, 06:44:58 pm
Great, that's what I thought. So I'm still not seeing any reason to port out of GV.
Hmm, have you read other postings/threads on this and other forums? GV, including GV forwarding , is becoming increasingly unreliable.
SteveInWA:
Quote from: J4545 on February 21, 2014, 06:44:58 pm
Great, that's what I thought. So I'm still not seeing any reason to port out of GV.
From GV's point of view it is just going to keep on forwarding my number to various phone numbers. I would rather have my total system decoupled into independent components anyway.
I posted about porting out for this reason: Many OBi customers bought the device expecting to use it with a Google-issued, or ported-into-GV phone number, as if GV was a "free phone company". They may not have cared about, or made use of, the many other features of GV. It never was a free phone company, and now that third-party direct access via XMPP is being shut down, some of those people will be unhappy. Those people now have a choice: port their GV phone number to an actual VoIP Internet Telephone Service Provider (ITSP), or keep the number with GV, and use a SIP VoIP carrier as a GV forwarding destination on their GV account, and on their OBi box. One way or the other, it's time to make a decision and to take action now, not wait.
This has been discussed in great detail elsewhere on the forums. My point was regarding timing, with some added tips for success.
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