Google Voice is now Officially Supported on OBi VoIP devices
kommon:
Thats great news but I ported my number out to Anveo after OBI suggested that google voice won't be supported in May 2014.
Can OBI talk to Google and get a waiver for obi customer for porting number back to google voice?
ramjet73:
Quote from: kommon on September 19, 2014, 09:42:30 am
Thats great news but I ported my number out to Anveo after OBI suggested that google voice won't be supported in May 2014.
Can OBI talk to Google and get a waiver for obi customer for porting number back to google voice?
OBI didn't "suggest" that Google Voice wouldn't be supported in May they published the information from Google that XMPP wouldn't be supported after May 15th and offered their customers alternatives. Other third parties using Google Voice "unofficially" like the developers of GrooveIP and GVJack published similar notices.
As it turns out, Google's position on XMPP was ambiguous at best, as are most of their statements about future directions. However, if you read between the lines before May 15th, it made sense to position for a loss of GV on Obihai devices. How and when you did that was entirely up to you.
You can still port your number back to Google for $20 and take advantage of what is now an officially supported provider that is free for now but may not be forever. GV offers features that most other ITSP's don't and vice versa so it's still your own business decision which one is best for your needs.
ceg3:
Anybody have a sense that GV is better in terms of call quality since the changes?
SteveInWA:
Quote from: ceg3 on September 19, 2014, 07:48:07 pm
Anybody have a sense that GV is better in terms of call quality since the changes?
If you've noticed better GV call quality over time (in the past year or so), it is because Google has been making a large investment in improving their carrier network. They've been analyzing user reports of dropped or poor-quality calls, and they have actually implemented automation to identify repeated call failures attributed to particular partner carriers. For example, if you make or receive a call that routes via transit carrier XYZ, and it fails (the call is disconnected, or you hang up), and then immediately try again, this is noted and analyzed for possible remediation.
This has resulted in some carriers being eliminated for certain call routes, and replaced with others. There is additional work going on to further improve the telco network topology to optimize call quality, so you'll continue to see improved reliability and improved audio quality.
ceg3:
Excellent! That's exactly what I was hoping to hear. Really good to hear they are continually working to improve the service. Bodes well for the future. I've had my GV account as a backup, but have moved it to SP1 as I begin to consider not renewing the service I picked up last winter in response to the GV scare.
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