Does anyone have an explanation on not supporting Google Voice Stutter Tone/MWI?
SteveInWA:
Thanks for the feedback, Mark!
BigJim_McD:
Quote from: SteveInWA on January 09, 2015, 06:38:50 pm
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.
SteveInWA,
I would like to add my "Thanks" to Zorlac's for your continued support and explanations of why "Google Voice Stutter Tone/MWI" no longer works. Also, I would like to add an additional "Thanks" for your explanation of the "CNAM mess" and why Google doesn't and will not support CNAM. I would like to say that your explanation was the best and clearest explanation that I have ever read on the issues of CNAM.
We do expect so MUCH from Google's FREE service.
Ryan_Tilton:
If MWI is very important to you and there turns out to be no updates to fix this or work arounds. You can use the voicemail service I have created to get your MWI working again. It offers the same features as Google voice such as transcription and email/sms alerts.
ceg3:
Tell us more. Is it a separate service from your Vestalink service, something that would be in addition to our Google Voice service?
Koby:
For anyone who really misses this feature and who does not want to subscribe to a pay service to get it back, see my post (Reply #19) in the other thread on this subject.
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