Can you set Outgoing Caller ID with PowerPhone ?
SteveInWA:
Quote from: smile6617 on April 17, 2014, 07:29:38 pm
To let your GV answer simply add 10 seconds to the forwarding action under the call forwarding area in power phone.
Hunh? No.
This is a long thread. To answer just the question, "how do I access my GV voicemail from a forwarding phone?"
Log onto your Google Voice account on a computer's web browser, not on a mobile device, and go here:
https://www.google.com/voice#phones
Click the Edit button under your forwarding phone number. Click Show advanced settings. On the page that appears, set "Voicemail access" to No. Save your settings. See my screenshot.
Program a speed dial on your forwarding phone, to call your GV number (the old-school way, just program it right on the handset, not on the OBi or the Phonepower portal). Now, all you have to do is press that speed dial. When your greeting answers, press *, then enter your PIN and #.
SteveInWA:
With regard to the MWI stutter tone: correct, the stutter tone is controlled by the carrier that is provisioned on the OBi device. So, if it's PhonePower, then you are getting a MWI from them, not from Google Voice, and it means you have a message waiting on your PP number, not on GV. You can't indirectly have one phone company's MWI appear on another phone company's service.
ladyamom:
Quote from: LJCW on March 20, 2014, 04:58:57 pm
I'm looking at subscribing to one of the ObiTalk approved services, ANVEO or PowerPhone.
I want to be able to set my Outgoing Caller ID to my Google Voice number.
Looking at the discussions here, it seems you can do this with ANVEO, but PowerPhone is a little cheaper.
Can you set Outgoing Caller ID with PowerPhone?
Is ANVEO worth the extra few dollars?
I just set up my PowerPhone account and the caller ID shows my GV number, that I filled in on the sign up page, but it doesn't show any caller name. Instead it shows "unknown name." The option to do caller ID was ticked off when I signed up so I'm not sure what's going on. Maybe they don't caller ID the name, just the number. I checked the PowerPhone service settings page under Outbound CNAM on my account and it shows the correct caller name. Apparently it isn't sending it however. Strange, then why have "cnam" ... caller name? I will call tomorrow and repost if I find that this can be fixed. If anyone has any further info, I would appreciate hearing it. I have to set up a friends GV/PowerPhone tomorrow.
SteveInWA:
Quote from: ladyamom on May 05, 2014, 09:10:00 pm
Quote from: LJCW on March 20, 2014, 04:58:57 pm
I'm looking at subscribing to one of the ObiTalk approved services, ANVEO or PowerPhone.
I want to be able to set my Outgoing Caller ID to my Google Voice number.
Looking at the discussions here, it seems you can do this with ANVEO, but PowerPhone is a little cheaper.
Can you set Outgoing Caller ID with PowerPhone?
Is ANVEO worth the extra few dollars?
I just set up my PowerPhone account and the caller ID shows my GV number, that I filled in on the sign up page, but it doesn't show any caller name. Instead it shows "unknown name." The option to do caller ID was ticked off when I signed up so I'm not sure what's going on. Maybe they don't caller ID the name, just the number. I checked the PowerPhone service settings page under Outbound CNAM on my account and it shows the correct caller name. Apparently it isn't sending it however. Strange, then why have "cnam" ... caller name? I will call tomorrow and repost if I find that this can be fixed. If anyone has any further info, I would appreciate hearing it. I have to set up a friends GV/PowerPhone tomorrow.
Caller ID NAME is a separate service from Caller ID number. It relies on the called party's telephone company doing a database lookup, during the interval between the 1st and 2nd rings, in a database of telephone numbers matched to their corresponding names. These DBs are maintained by various telcos and third parties, and assuming PhonePower is actually feeding their customer's information to the DBs, it may take days or even months for all the various DBs to refresh with that information. CNAM is kind of a mess, since deregulation of the Bell System monopoly, since there are multiple database providers out there who may or may not have fresh information.
Taoman:
Quote from: ladyamom on May 05, 2014, 09:10:00 pm
Maybe they don't caller ID the name, just the number.
This is the correct answer. PhonePower doesn't allowing "spoofing" of outbound CID. However, they have made an exception for Obi plans and allow the spoofing of outbound number (only!) to be your Google Voice number. Outbound CNAM is not supported for those on "Obi" plans. Outbound CNAM is only supported if you are also using the PP supplied telephone number for your CID.
Period. End of story.
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