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| Google Voice with your existing number »www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/10/···gle.html
»googlevoiceblog.blogspot.com/200···ber.html
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc has introduced a new feature that will allow consumers to use its Google Voice service without switching to a special phone number, potentially broadening the appeal of the nascent, and controversial, service.
Google said late Monday that new users of its service will be able to have the calls that they don't answer forwarded to a special Google Voice electronic mailbox, essentially bypassing the voicemail provided by their phone carriers.
Google Voice offers a variety of voicemail management features, including unlimited storage and text transcription of voicemail messages.
The service also allows consumers to make low-priced international calls by routing portions of the call over Google's infrastructure and the Internet.
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| It looks like all it does is have users forward their cell phone voicemail to GV instead of their cell phone carrier. The simul-ring and screening functions are, to me, the primary benefits of GV, so I can't really see this as all that exciting. |
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| Looks like they're gearing up for LNP. |
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this could also be a sign that they want to test the waters for getting out of the free DID business while still offering much of the original service. also the justification for free outbound has always been to show your GV number as caller ID, that justification starts to go away with this development. |
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there will be some backfire on this if it is not made very clear that user will be charged airtime minutes on the cell plans for the call forwarding and in some cases large additional charges. |
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this is very similar to AOL voice mail. i believe that has been around for a decade or more. who knows or cares about it? there are at least a half dozen other voice mail services that work the same way with conditional call forwarding(CCF) some of them free. i believe none of them popular. this will appeal to almost no one and will confuse all the new users who believe GV is a way to eliminate there phone bill.
this is a total dead end offering. |
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Useless for me. The purpose of Google Voice is to have one number that can forward to any multiple numbers you have. This set-up looks like it's just a forwarded voicemail box for your cellphone. I might as well still use my own cellphone's voicemail. They need LNP, not games like these. |
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This is a great! I've been waiting for this for a long time. Yes there are other similar services out there that do this, but all charge a fee.
Now I can get ALL my voicemails in one place - Google Voice! |
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| said by Will Hill:This is a great! I've been waiting for this for a long time. Yes there are other similar services out there that do this, but all charge a fee. Now I can get ALL my voicemails in one place - Google Voice! you have always been able to conditionally forward your phones to your GC/GV number. |
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Could we have done this already by changing the settings on our mobiles or is this something new? That is, if I were to have changed all my forwards (busy, not available, etc.) to my GV numnber, would it have already worked or is there new functionality? |
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| whats new is you have the option of getting rid of some features such as a free DID, call screening and free outbound calling(i think.)
p.s. has anyone setup one of these accounts. if so can you still use click2call? if yes than how does the outbound caller ID work? do you have a choice among different forwarded phones? i suspect they eliminated click2call on these accounts since the whole point has always been to provide your GV number as caller ID. of course for Mozilla and his followers there is another point. |
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It would have been more useful if they had gone the other direction and allowed us to turn OFF voice mail, or at least to adjust the time before voice mail picks up. |
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the google voice forum has a whole bunch of posts from new users who signed up for the new option without fully understanding the difference and now are unable to switch to a full account.
»www.google.com/support/forum/p/voice?hl=en
these people will not be happy after waiting weeks or months for GV and than ending up with a service that does none of what they had been waiting for. |
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nitzanPremium,VIP
join:2008-02-27
kudos:2 | reply to caseydoug
said by caseydoug:It would have been more useful if they had gone the other direction and allowed us to turn OFF voice mail, or at least to adjust the time before voice mail picks up. But then they won't be able to spy custom tailor ads to your voice messages.... |
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 RockyBBPremium
join:2005-01-31
Steamboat Springs, CO | said by nitzan:But then they won't be able to spy custom tailor ads to your voice messages.... I don't believe that GoogleVoice is about advertising. I think it's about creating goodwill about Google that will provide returns with sales of "GoogleVoice compatible" Android cell phones. Verizon just started a stealth advertising campaign for their new "droid" cell phone ... see »www.droiddoes.com |
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said by caseydoug:It would have been more useful if they had gone the other direction and allowed us to turn OFF voice mail, or at least to adjust the time before voice mail picks up. Agree 100%. Turn off and/or adjust the time is needed. Just yesterday for some reason on my AT&T Wireless phone, there was an enormous delay in completing calls to it. My Google Voice calls would get answered by Google before my phone started to ring.
Still, I don't see any breakthrough here. Call Forwarding has been around since at least the 70's. So we're all supposed to be jumping for joy since we can now automatically forward calls from our cellphones to them? It looks like Google Voice is trying to reverse the cards here, making their service into a feature-rich voicemail system. I guess Google Voice has now taken the path that they can reduce expenses, or in fact make a bit of money, by just accepting incoming calls instead of being a service where you get one number to ring all your phones.
Then there's that Google Voice suggestion page asking users what services they would want. They must not even look at those suggestions, since they start a new service that nobody I can think of even asked for. |
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RockyBBPremium
join:2005-01-31
Steamboat Springs, CO | said by burgerwars: They must not even look at those suggestions, since they start a new service that nobody I can think of even asked for. Practicing for a demagogue test? Certainly you can think of even one lowly meaningless person that would like to have all voice mail messages in a single place instead of having to check two boxes... |
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| said by RockyBB:said by burgerwars: They must not even look at those suggestions, since they start a new service that nobody I can think of even asked for. Practicing for a demagogue test? Certainly you can think of even one lowly meaningless person that would like to have all voice mail messages in a single place instead of having to check two boxes... I was looking forward to LNP, but instead they do this! We'll need to all march down to Google Voice headquarters, break down the doors, and tell them what we (me!) really want. |
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decades
join:2005-01-17
San Francisco, CA | I did the forward trick with my existing mobile and I got a busy signal instead of google voice mail! let's hope that's not a system wide glitch. |
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| reply to josephf
I don't see this as a great advancement in the Google Voice evolution. Why would one decide to loose the majority of Google Voices features. I currently can not see any benefit for this offering for my current needs.  |
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