Please Help with Obivoice/Google Voice voicemail solution....
se1961:
Further updates, to those transitioning: shortly before leaving town on a week long vacation (and leaving my kids and in-laws in my voip house!) I discovered that my Anveo line was having difficulty making some 800 calls, as well as some local calls I suspect are also VOIP carriers. After reading many threads (very quickly-- I had a plane to catch) I discovered that this is a known issue. Apparently some users on lower tier plans (free vs. starter for example) have certain calls (free conference call numbers for example, in my case, British Airways and a local contractor) refused by the service provider, for economic reasons. As workaround, I set up an account with localphone.com, which has a slightly cheaper per minute outgoing rate. So now I am using the system suggested by at least one long time user on this forum (or perhaps the broadband forum), which seemed at first too complicated: Anveo as my ITSP A provider, LocalPhone as my ITSP B provider. Anveo on SP1, LocalPhone on SP2. All of our Google Voice Numbers (4) are forwarded to the Anveo number. Main phone number is spoofed as caller id on both Anveo and LocalPhone. LocalPhone is set as primary for all outgoing calls, except for 911. I can't remember the digit map for that, and I'm still out of town, but it's easy to find on this forum-- many people used it when setting up Google Voice/Anveo as 911. I am so happy with this solution, which has allowed free phone calls from Europe (google voice to google voice to Anveo) and continued access to all the Google Voice features I appreciate. So far no complaints about service from the family I left behind. :)
PS I suspect some people might wonder why not just use LocalPhone for both incoming and outgoing-- in my case, I was very leery of having the google voice forwarded calls degrade to the point of disrupting the calls; so far Anveo has been rock solid in that regard, and I didn't want to push my luck. I figure if worse comes to worse that the quality of the outgoing calls turns out to be less than stellar, I can upgrade my Anveo plan. My understanding is that once you are on an upgraded (even "starter") package, Anveo will put through the blocked calls I was having trouble with.
giqcass:
Quote from: se1961 on February 18, 2014, 11:27:46 am
My understanding is that once you are on an upgraded (even "starter") package, Anveo will put through the blocked calls I was having trouble with.
I don't know for sure about Anveo but many Voip providers require prepaid credit to place calls to blocked destinations. They are forced to charge a little more to certain destinations so they pass it on to the customers. If you check their policies you may find an actual price
Quote from: se1961 on February 18, 2014, 11:27:46 am
I discovered that my Anveo line was having difficulty making some 800 calls, as well as some local calls I suspect are also VOIP carriers.
There was a very specific "early media" issue that applied to 1-800/888 carriers when using Google Voice. I don't know if it applies to Anveo. Many of us implemented special dialing plans to reroute these calls.
Quote from: se1961 on February 18, 2014, 11:27:46 am
I am so happy with this solution, which has allowed free phone calls from Europe (google voice to google voice to Anveo) and continued access to all the Google Voice features I appreciate. So far no complaints about service from the family I left behind. :)
Free calling back home from overseas is one of the most appreciated features for travelers. I keep in touch with my friend who travels for work in a similar fashion. Should you have quality issues you may be able to get better call quality by making a pure sip call or an Obion to Obi direct call.
se1961:
Thank you for your clarifications. I know have read and gotten help from many of your posts already. :)
dvguy:
Obi please do the right thing for once and make sure our obi device are compatible with obivoice. Your business model of pushing people to google voice is over and you need to adapt. I really like my obi, but you need to react and make sure your device is compatible with the only service offering low price calling. The Aveno deal is a joke and you need to raise the bar or I am afraid my obi will wind up in the garbage along with your profits as nobody will buy it for 250 minute a month calling. Come on obi and Aveno get real. $15 a month gets me unlimted calling from my cable company. Step up and try to save your company and make your device compatible with obivoice. I am afraid this will fall on def ears.
gderf:
Obivoice works fine with OBis. Many are using the two together already. What more do you want?
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