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BobssintheForum:
Another plug for Callcentric - great suite of services. I love their forwarding, multiple phone ring, many other features.
MikeHObi:
Quote from: danielbliss on April 15, 2014, 08:02:01 pm
This might be a stupid question (first time poster here), but is it really necessary to port my google voice number?
Google has had and continues to have some problems with completing calls to some phone numbers held by a number of VOIP providers. The problem started sometime around November of 2013. Many numbers are unaffected and many numbers are. You never know if yours will be affected until you try.
I ported because I had numbers that were affected with 3 different voip providers. If you can forward without problems then there are no compelling reasons to port.
AlanB:
While I answered that you don't need to port, I did as well. My call quality on incoming calls has improved.
Taoman:
Quote from: MikeHObi on April 16, 2014, 02:15:54 pm
Google has had and continues to have some problems with completing calls to some phone numbers held by a number of VOIP providers. The problem started sometime around November of 2013. Many numbers are unaffected and many numbers are. You never know if yours will be affected until you try.
So it is your understanding that it just affects some numbers and not others?
The reason I ask is that I got a free Callcentric DID a week ago and use it as a forwarded number in GV. My understanding is that this affects the free CC DIDs but not the paid CC DIDs. Yet I have tested my free CC DID as much as possible and so far it has worked perfectly with no dropped/incompleted calls and with correct CID passed every time. Based on your post I'm trying to figure out whether I may have lucked out with a "good" DID number that doesn't suffer from this issue or is it more likely I just haven't run into it yet and it's just a matter of time?
danielbliss:
Thanks, all. I just successfully registered an outbound account with circlenet.us (taking advantage of their $2 credit offer) and will, as of May 15th, switch to circlenet for outgoing calls and will continue to rely on my free callcentric did for incoming calls (using GV number forwarded to callcentric). I prefer the pay-as-you-go approach, especially given circlenet's extremely inexpensive prices (I never make international calls, and my outbounds probably don't amount to more than 300 min. per month).
The callcentric number has served me well for over a year now for inbounds without dropped calls. I migrated to an Obi202 from a Linksys PAP2T - GV - sipgate - SipSorcery combination for many years (got a bit weary of programming dial plans in ruby, though!).
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