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Re: Limitations? if you do this just remember to request that your cellphone provider either turns off your voicemail or sets it to like 8-10 rings before answering. Otherwise google voice might not actually pick up the voicemail part in time. |
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said by dfxmatt:if you do this just remember to request that your cellphone provider either turns off your voicemail or sets it to like 8-10 rings before answering. Otherwise google voice might not actually pick up the voicemail part in time. Google voicemail prompts you to "call forward" no answer to your Google Voice Number if you have a GV account so it answers immediately once it sees the call. There is no delay that way.
Downside: If I dial *71 plus my GV number - calls will forward to it after a preset number of rings from my carrier.
All calls when busy will also go there.
What you lose: Call waiting. If you forward off net to GV using the *71 command,whenever your phone is busy, it will always go to their voicemail. To me, that is a downside.
My carrier is Verizon. |
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1 edit | umm, when I have GV and my old voicemail active, by the 4th ring it'd pick up on my voicemail and it wouldn't go to GV. I have no idea why that is.
meanwhile, what are you talking about with call waiting?
if I get one call on GV and then get another, you can see the 2nd call coming in. The only reason you can't see who it is is so you can use your verizon friends & family for the # |
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| said by dfxmatt:meanwhile, what are you talking about with call waiting? There are two services you are confusing.
If a caller calls you on your google voice number and it goes to your cell phone, that is NOT what this new feature is talking about.
Under those circumstances, you will receive the first call and if you answer it and receive a second call - yes you will see the second incoming call and you can answer it or let it go to your carriers voicemail system as designed or to your google voicemail box depending on what answer options you have selected in your google voice profile.
Separate feature:
What this feature is talking about is if people do not have your google voice number (maybe because you don't want them to have it) but you have a google voice number -confused yet  ?- there is a way to make your cell forward to a google voice mailbox that will answer and take/transcribe messages for you.
With Verizon, their instructions were to invoke the *71 command which sends:
Calls after they ring on your cell to the google voicemail system NOT the voicemail system for Verizon.
It also sends ALL calls to this same destination upon busy.
So if I have selected to have Google Voice answer calls forwarded from my cell to them, I have effectively shut off call waiting on my Verizon phone.
I can receive the first call but if I am talking on the phone, Verizon's system will send all subsequent calls to the *71 Forwarding destination until I cancel it with *73.) |
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