Obi202 - two lines, one provider account
B34N:
I've been loving my Obi202 with My GV number. It stinks that Google is taking that away from me, but I'm certainly willing to pay a bit to get continued good service.
I want to be able to use my Obi202 with two different numbers and use only one account with a service provider. We would port over our land line phone to the provider and use that on line 1. I would then like to forward my GV number to a number for line 2 since I don't want to give up the forwarding capabilities of my GV number by porting it to the provider. I would then have all outgoing calls from line 2 show as my GV number. It sounds like it should be really easy to do, but I'm looking for confirmation. It's a no-brainer if I setup two accounts, but I'm looking to get by with only one. We typically use much less than 200 mins a month of time on the phone in total so two accounts would be overkill.
Thank you,
B34N
AlanB:
Anveo can do this if you don't go with the ObiTalk plans, but use a straight Anveo plan. You can create a sub account. It's already discussed in detail here: http://www.obitalk.com/forum/index.php?topic=7681.msg49671#msg49671
I'm sure many other providers can do this as well.
azrobert:
I know you don't want 2 providers, but CircleNet charges less than half a cent per minute.
100 hundred minutes on a 2nd line would cost you less than 50 cents per month.
Currently they are an outbound only provider, but you can specify any outbound CallerID.
B34N:
Thank you for the replies. The most important items are that I have reliable phone with E911 and that I can use two sets of phones on my obi202. Price is less of an issue as I'm sure most any option is going to be much less expensive than my single phone with Verizon.
I'm trying to understand the Anveo option a bit better. Since I want to move over an existing phone number and also get a new phone number (if needed for forwarding my GV number to), I would be looking at something like:
$1.00 = .50 * 2 for two phone numbers: 1 for moved and 1 for something to forward GV to
$0.80 : E911 for both numbers under one account
$0.01: per minute incoming/outgoing calls within the 48 U.S. states
With this I could have each port of my Obi202 handle a separate number. I could make the calls on my "GV line" look like they are actually coming from my GV number. With all of this I would have caller ID and reliable phone service?
Thank you,
B34N
AlanB:
B34N. That should work as you describe. Of course if either line typically has more than 150 minutes of incoming calls you'd be better off on the personal unlimited for that number but I think you could switch to that at any time.
You will have a one time fee of $15 to port your landline.
As azrobert said you can always add CircleNet later if you wish for cheaper outgoing calls since you still presumably have SP3 and SP4 available.
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