Porting cellphone only, is it possible?
Mercurius:
I'm still having confusion here.
Currently, I don't have a landline but I have cellular service (with calling plans and contract). I also have a prepaid-cellular service with verizon. I'm thinking porting the prepaid-cellular number into GV and uses the number with Obi200 as landline. Is this possible?
Thank you again.
SteveInWA:
Quote from: Mercurius on December 09, 2014, 09:44:30 am
I'm still having confusion here.
Currently, I don't have a landline but I have cellular service (with calling plans and contract). I also have a prepaid-cellular service with verizon. I'm thinking porting the prepaid-cellular number into GV and uses the number with Obi200 as landline. Is this possible?
Thank you again.
Ignoring OBi devices for the moment, Google Voice is not a standalone telephone company to completely replace some other form of telephone service. It is an inbound telephone call forwarding service. By design, you are either issued a new Google Voice phone number, by clicking the "Get a Voice number" link on the web page, OR you can port in an existing mobile phone number. Once you do that, you have a Google Voice telephone number. However, the service expects that you forward that Google Voice number to another, separate, real telephone number. You need to have a separate forwarding number to sign up for service with GV. That phone number can be any land line (conventional or VoIP) or mobile phone number in the continental USA. For example, many people use a VoIP phone number, such as a free inbound number from callcentric.com
Google Voice cannot make 911 emergency calls, and it's subject to occasional outages or other issues, so it is not recommended as your sole means of telephone communications.
Next, when you add an OBi device into the mix, it also becomes another forwarding destination which uses the Google Chat pseudo phone destination to communicate with Google Voice. Inbound calls to your GV number will ring on the OBi-attached telephone(s), and on up to six other forwarding phones you may add to the list, here: https://www.google.com/voice#phones
Mercurius:
SteveInWA,
Thank you very much for your patience. Before posting this forum, I read this tutorial: http://www.obihai.com/porttutorial regarding porting the landline number to GV and the makes GV+Obi work for daily calls.
Since I don't have landline, I basically skip to step 6 (according to the tutorial), porting and making the prepaid cell# into permanent phone number in GV then join with Obi200 to work for inbound and outbound calls, is that correct assumption?
If GV is a just forwarding service only, then porting landline # to GV (through intermediate Cellular company), won't work either after all after porting, the landline service is disconnect, right?
Thank you again for your feedback.
SteveInWA:
You're basically asking the same question repeatedly, so I can't think of a clearer way to explain it. I'll give it one more try:
Google Voice is not a telephone company. It is a service provider that works with various telephone companies.Google Voice uses a telephone number, held by a telephone carrier, as your inbound phone number. It then forwards those inbound calls somewhere else. That "somewhere else" is either to your OBi device, or to any combination of 1 to 6 land line or mobile phone numbers under your control.When you sign up for Google Voice service, you can either get a phone number from Google, which leases them from various VoIP carries, and gives you one for free, OR you can port in an existing mobile phone number that you are currently using (paying for service with a mobile carrier).Porting a telephone number from any telephone company to any other telephone company disconnects service from the losing telephone company, and connects service on that number with the new telephone company.In this case, you are porting in your mobile number from your current telephone company to use as a telephone number on Google's service.You still need another telephone number to assign to your account as a forwarding phone, after your current mobile number is ported in.That other telephone number can be any mobile or land line telephone number in the 48 contiguous United States, including a number from a VoIP service provider, such as Anveo, Callcentric, voip.ms, etc.
Mercurius:
Thank you SteveinWA.
Is RingTo a VOIP provider or just another forwarding service like GV?
Thank you very much.
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