Comments on: Google Voice Porting — Numbers No, But Voicemail Yes!

By: technologiez

technologiez — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:56:55 +0000

Google Voice Service Takes Aim At Telephone Companies: It converts voice mails to text, and even better…nice article

By: Dan Wrubel

Dan Wrubel — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:04:28 +0000

Unknown to most, you can call AT&T customer service and request they change the time it takes calls to go to your voicemail. If you choose the minimum (6 seconds, I think but might be zero), the call will go almost immediately to your Google Voice number. From there, GV can loop back to your phone then capture the voice message if you choose not to answer. The flow looks like this:
1. mobile phone call (1 ring)
2. transfer to GV
3. GV calls your mobile number (2-4 more rings)
4. you don’t answer, allowing GV to take and transcribe the message.

Total rings to voicemail, 2-5…pretty acceptable.

By: Bradley Taylor

Bradley Taylor — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:09:29 +0000

Want all of google voice features for minimal cost? Sign up for a remote call forwarding service like les.net or xebba.com. Port your cell phone number over to them. Have that number forward to your Google Voice Account. then have google voice call you on your new cell phone # you have set up with your provider. Google voice will take all of your calls, and you will have all of the benefits.

By: Jose

Jose — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:53:23 +0000

Hey Guys

I registered with the “using a non-Google option” option.
Do you know if there is a way to change it to “using a Google number” option?

Thanks

By: Vall

Vall — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:11:53 +0000

According to Google Voice… Sprint will have free conditional forwarding of calls starting mid-November (meaning calls you ignored or did not pick up will be forwarded). Seems like they are working on agreements to keep it free. Ultimately, I’d check with your carrier.

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:41:23 +0000

Absolutely. Go into the Settings of your existing GV account and hit the Phones section. Next to each phone you have, you’ll see a “Activate Google voicemail for this phone?” option. You can activate it for your native Sprint VM and later deactivate it if you don’t want to continue using it.

By: jericho

jericho — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:27:07 +0000

Kevin -

Will this work if I already have a Google Voice account and number? Can I still port my native Sprint VM to GV?

-Jericho

By: Nathan Anderson

Nathan Anderson — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:29:27 +0000

Since the way that this new service from Google works is by changing the “call forward no-answer” and “call forward busy” forwarding numbers to point to Google’s voicemail service instead of Sprint’s own, I’m afraid on this point that it sounds like you are incorrect; unlike the normal Google Voice service we’ve all come to know, where Google call-forwards TO your phone, in this case, your phone is being told to forward calls FROM itself to Google’s voicemail system.

If Sprint truly does charge $0.20/min for call forwarding, then I see no way around that if you want to use this new feature of Voice.
OH! You’re my new favorite blogger fyi

By: Nathan Anderson

Nathan Anderson — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:02:06 +0000

If Sprint truly does charge $0.20/min for call forwarding, then I see no way around that if you want to use this new feature of Voice.

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:03:30 +0000

I’m only seeing where it is an option (on my account anyways) to turn it on for my mobile number. Wondering if there would be a way to have GV be the voicemail for my Verizon land line also. Not sure how to do it??

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:10:43 +0000

turns out I’m wrong – as is usually the case – activating Google Voice Mail for each phone number does in fact work for google custom voice phone numbers

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:09:54 +0000

looks like there is active google voicemail next to each phone number – that is nice to have that feature and the google custom number, too.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:03:29 +0000

thanks for that clarification

By: Gary

Gary — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:55:47 +0000

@Rob – you can do both. From what I found though, is that you have to turn off forwarding in your GV account to the numbers you selected if you don’t want to create a “loop”. My problem above was corrected when I unchecked the numbers to forward it to…because essentially it was calling my iphone, then calling GV to drop a vmail, but since it was on forward it rand the iphone again, creating a one time loop until it dropped to Vmail (not continuous, but annoyingly long to a caller trying to leave a msg).

By: Tom Murphy

Tom Murphy — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:48:16 +0000

“you still can’t port a number to Google Voice yet — that’s still in the works”

I sure hope you are right.. that it’s in the works. Please be sure to update us when/if it ever happens.

Thanks

Tom

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:46:56 +0000

Kevin – I could be wrong, but I think you get one or the other. I don’t think you can have a google voice number and have it do your voice mail transcription from your non-google voice number – and it is all done at time of setting up Google Voice for the first time. I don’t think existing Google Voice users with a custom number have this additional option. I could be wrong, though, but that is the way I read it.