Vestalink Raising My So-called Locked-in Rate
ceg3:
Quote from: aopisa on November 14, 2014, 08:34:26 am
Exact same situation here. I jumped ship thinking that moving away from GV early would avoid some hassle around the cut-off date communicated by Obi. I am not going to go into that mess.
I ported my GV number since I found that the GV forwarding was causing a lot of connection and missed call issues.
I just checked and see that my $24.99/year plan is going up to $69.99. Good-bye Vestalink. I don't use the phone that much and really only have it to get E911. In the very outside chance of an emergency, I need anyone to pick up the phone and dial 911 without having to know anything about SIP, Obi, etc. Hello Anveo again.
I am not sure if I will go the mobile porting route or just use a new GV number.
Thanks for the heads up.
Your story sounds just like mine. I have permanently forwarded my Vestalink number to my GV and am only using the account for the included E911. I've taken the step of cancelling my renewal, so it will expire at the first of the year. I'm trying to see if I can hang onto the GV number by porting it to Anveo to use exclusively as an E911 number. That way I'll keep the number I've had so long close and available for future use if I want. I have an open support ticket with Anveo, but it's a day or two between replies, so I don't know if that will work. The number failed their portability test, but they going to check it themselves.
ceg3:
Turns out I am not going to be able to port my Vestalink number to Anveo, due to some limitation of their carrier. I will have to decide to add money to Anveo, tying up a minimum of 20.00 or just add E911 through OBiTALK, which is just a little more expensive, but only ties up 15.00. It's a bit of twisted logic, but in the short run 15.00 seems cheaper than 20.00 and who knows what service I might be using in a year. ;D
lhm.:
If you use gv911.com for $12 a year, it does not matter what service you use. Works for me.
ceg3:
Quote from: lhm. on November 16, 2014, 09:27:38 am
If you use gv911.com for $12 a year, it does not matter what service you use. Works for me.
Their sign up looks very lean and straight forward. How long have you been using them and do they support the OBi200. The website http://www.gv911.com/ doesn't specifically mention the 200, but I'm betting the website doesn't get updated very often.
Thanks for the heads up.
lhm.:
A little over 2 years. It will work on all Obi ATAs
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