Comments on: Missing Google Voice Feature Gives Me a Bad Connection

By: Mohit Agrawal

Mohit Agrawal — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:56:51 +0000

Google dominates the web and is trying to ensure its dominance spreads to mobile Internet too. The Google Voice announcement is step towards this goal.

Since last week an intense debate has been going on across the telecom world about Google Voice, aimed at disrupting the telecom and Internet industry: A bunch of Internet phones and messaging services are christened as Google Voice. Actually a Googly remix of GrandCentral, a start up it bought in 2007.

The debate is that how would this impact the carrier business? I guess the bigger question is that how would this impact Google’s most awaited innovation in the Telecom business – The Google Android Operating System?

Read the full article at http://www.telecomcircle.com/2009/03/googlevoice/

By: Jg

Jg — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:31:21 +0000

I have forwarded my cell number to Google Voice. The only downside is the texts are not forwarded. ATT isn’t forwarding them.

other than that, it works great.

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:47:35 +0000

Sure, a FW workaround would do the trick for now, but that sort of defeats the premise of a centralized voice communications tool. Besides, there would times when I’d have calls sent from my cell FW to Google which would then FW them right back. Seems kinda silly to me. ;) Anyway, my main point is that isn’t actually a beta (that I know of), so I wish they had this key feature in from the beginning.

By: arhythmatik

arhythmatik — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:37:07 +0000

Why not just set up your regularly used number to forward to your Google Voice number?

By: Scotty

Scotty — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:38:39 +0000

Kevin, just post your number here and I promise I’ll call you at least once a day. :-)

By: Wayne Schulz

Wayne Schulz — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:54:36 +0000

For a site that by all appearances was nearly dormant – Google sure is taking their sweet time converting over the remaining Grandcentral accounts.

On the other hand, I don’t know what I’ll do with myself if I’m not rushing home to see if my account converted yet..