Google Voice back as Approved Service Provider!?
aragno:
Can anyone tell me if Google Voice will maintain all my incoming, outgoing, and missed call logs while using an OBi device?
I would like to purchase an OBi device but this, along with accessing other Google Voice features such as call routing dependent upon the incoming caller, are important to me.
Kage:
Quote from: aragno on September 17, 2014, 07:06:11 am
Can anyone tell me if Google Voice will maintain all my incoming, outgoing, and missed call logs while using an OBi device?
I would like to purchase an OBi device but this, along with accessing other Google Voice features such as call routing dependent upon the incoming caller, are important to me.
You can go to the Google Voice account and delete your history but my guess is Google still keeps a record of your calls somewhere else but I haven't seen any policy of theirs if that's the case or for how long the data is kept. Skype maintains calls for at least six months. There may be laws or regulations that requires this for potential criminal investigations and of course Google has their own self interest for wanting it.
Just so you know, the obi device also stores your calls locally but you can easily delete them.
SteveInWA:
Quote from: aragno on September 17, 2014, 07:06:11 am
Can anyone tell me if Google Voice will maintain all my incoming, outgoing, and missed call logs while using an OBi device?
I would like to purchase an OBi device but this, along with accessing other Google Voice features such as call routing dependent upon the incoming caller, are important to me.
When you use an OBi device with Google Voice, the OBi device is simply emulating a human user logged into their Google Voice account. So yes, the usual GV website features are available, such as managing your inbox, history, and spam folders, which contain your logs of calls, voicemail messages and text messages. You can save or delete them as you wish. You can also use a program called Google Takeout to export the data to save it elsewhere. For more information, check out the help documentation for GV.
BobTeatow:
1. BIG THANKS ;D to the folks at Google Voice and Obihai who brought this back. I was using dirt-cheap localphone.com for outbound, but free is even better than cheap! Plus of course google voice now has a log (history) of my outbound calls, which is sometimes handy.
2. I hadn't looked in a while, but seems Google now offers dirt cheap calling rates to Brazil landlines and the cheapest I've seen to mobile.
3. Just one little thing missing. AFAIK, Google voice inbound to Obi, does not support Caller-ID-with-Name. Now I know the drill about CNAM lookup - but I'd be fine if somehow Google/Obi would just figure out how to just pull names from my Google Contacts. I'll populate that with my friends, family, and usual suspects. No need to go to an external CNAM database - but if you'd like to do that as a second, fine.
Which is just the way the CallCentric does it - First look in my personal directory and then if that fails, use a CNAM directory.
Which is why I'm still using Google==>CallCentric path for inbound calls. After all inbound calls are "free" with CallCentric, so why not? The only downsides are:t I have to separately populate my Callcentric "Name/Number" phonebook. And I think sometimes the extra hop(?) creates a funky connection with extra delay/noise/echo/dropouts.
I use a panasonic phone system that pronounces and announces each incoming call, Caller-ID-Name makes this very very helpful. (Scenario: should I bother running to "catch the call" from Sally? no. - The boss? Yeah probably. That callback I've been waiting for? yes. The wife? Definitely ;)
Ostracus:
Put in an LDAP client perhaps.
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