Does anyone have an explanation on not supporting Google Voice Stutter Tone/MWI?
ChrisJacob:
I toyed with my gear when I purchased it a year ago. Finally got around to kicking out Vonage and porting my number (with a hop at TMobile) to GV. I have been very pleased with how easy everything went, and how reliable (knock on wood) everything seems to be. Really I only have two issues...
1. No longer supporting the MWI stutter tone when using GV. Does anyone have an official word, or even a good educated guess as to why this was removed. I honestly tried searching, but this "SMF V 1.1" forum system is terrible for searching.
2. (This one totally Google related) When I get a VM on GV, I want to send it to two people (what google would call a group in gmail) The problem is, I can only select my email address or one of the aliases. (I'm using google apps) I can't enter the group name. Does anyone have a work around for this?
Thanks in advance!
-chris
SteveInWA:
Hi Chris:
1: I don't have an "official" answer, but MWI isn't something that Google supported nor designed into Chat, so Obihai had to hack something. It never worked that well, stopped working periodically, and it's possible that the 2014 authentication update was the final nail in the coffin.
2: One way to handle this is to have GV send the notification to a Gmail address, and then set up a forwarding rule to fan it out to your desired group.
ceg3:
Quote from: SteveInWA on January 08, 2015, 04:50:34 pm
1: I don't have an "official" answer, but MWI isn't something that Google supported nor designed into Chat, so Obihai had to hack something. It never worked that well, stopped working periodically, and it's possible that the 2014 authentication update was the final nail in the coffin.
Do you think there is any at all likelihood we'll ever get MWI back or my dream, CNAM?
SteveInWA:
I have no crystal ball as to the future for MWI; the situation might change if or when Obihai migrates its device firmware from XMPP to WebRTC, but again, I have no idea of the timetable for that.
RE: CNAM, forget it; not going to happen. CNAM is a mess, as an unfortunate but understandable side effect of the deregulation of the telephone carriers, and the proliferation of mobile phones and VoIP DIDs.
In ye olden tymes, pre-divestiture of the Bell System, the various local exchange carriers (mostly Baby Bells, with some independents like General Telephone) had control of their own customers' account information. It was easy for them to build CNAM data bases and "dip" into them to look up names. They shared those data bases with each other. Now, there are many, many providers out there, and the data bases are maintained by not just the ILECs, but by third-party data brokers. Somebody has to pay for that DB maintenance and infrastructure, and it's the telephone service providers who do the feeds of their subscribers, and the lookup dips.
Since GV is a (mostly) free service, Google doesn't pay the providers to be able to perform lookups, and it doesn't provide its users' names to the DBs, either.
zorlac:
Thanks for taking the time to post all this background info Steve, I appreciate you sharing your knowledge.
Mark
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