said by hok:said by tom thomas :
all outbound calls seem to now be going through G5 with spoofed caller ID(again..there has been a bit of back and forth on how calls are actually routed)
my take is that G5 got completely overwhelmed with the popularity of this service. i would guess one of these three things got them:
1. they designed a GV dialer platform that triggered a callback from the web interface that could not handle the amount of traffic that was coming through.
2. google started blocking them.
3. google asked them to stop.
in order to not lose face they decided to keep the service open but route all calls through there own outbound servers with spoofed caller ID. they can not afford to do it for free so they are charging .02 per minute.
the whole thing stinks. but a doubt if G5 really planned it go down like this. they may have been well intended but only expected a fraction of the traffic or maybe google got involve and created an issue and so they had to change the plan.
I pretty much agree that was what happened. It seems to me that starting shortly after 5 p.m. Pacific Daylight-saving Time on Thursday, July 30, 2009, all outgoing calls made through Gizmo Voice no longer go through Google Voice. If you have Gizmo5 Call Out credit balance, Gizmo5 will deduct 1.9¢ per minute for calls within United States except toll-free calls. There is no free U.S. calling minute at all, not even 3 minutes as stated in »
www.gizmovoice.com/.
On the other hand, if you do not have Gizmo5 Call Out credit balance, then you may get 3 minutes free calling. In other words, you can call any telephone number within continental United States for free but just for 3 minutes. You will get disconnect right after 3 minutes talk time.
said by Cablespider:The party is over. I disabled the GV option on Gizmo and changed my Gmail password. It was fun while it lasted.
I did the same thing.
Gizmo Voice (Saturday, July 25, 2009 ~ Thursday, July 30, 2009)
Gizmo5 backdoor dialing (Wednesday, January 23, 2008 ~ Thursday, March 5, 2009) now G5 is really going to upset paying cutomers who were expecting(even if not expicitly stated it is the case) that all calls under 3 minutes would be free an dthat charging would always begin on the fourth minute.
