Obi100 and Google Voice??

[mommy4]

Does anyone have the Obi100 and do the google voice to save on home phone? I'm trying to decide if this is a good idea or not. I wanted to have a home phone just in case and this gets really good reviews on amazon, so I'm curious about it.

 

[wiigirl]

My brother does that and he loves it. He really likes Google voice and that he can get it on pretty much anything.

 

[RitaE]

Yep that's what I have.

You can set up two services on it so I set up the first for Google Voice and then the second to a service called Anveo - which charges me 80cents a month to provide e911 service.

 

[BadgerGirl84]

Yes. If you need a home phone, I highly recommend this option.

I work from home every other week and need to dial into 8-10 hours of conference and long distance calls each week while I'm home. I have unlimited minutes with my cell phone, but reception isn't always ideal and it doesn't have the greatest speaker phone.

We got the OBI, some cordless phones on Amazon and a headset on Amazon and set up a google voice account.

I LOVE IT. I have the google voice programmed to ring my cell phone too, so that is the number I give out as my business number. I had a few issues in the first week of it not working, but it was an issue with the router my husband was able to resolve.

Hope the solution works for you, too!

 

[mommy4]

Yep that's what I have.

You can set up two services on it so I set up the first for Google Voice and then the second to a service called Anveo - which charges me 80cents a month to provide e911 service.

Ok, so I can get 911! That is what I was most worried about. So, when I get the device it will explain how to set all of this up? Do you know if I can keep my current home phone #?

 

[RitaE]

Google Voice will only port in wireless numbers (from a list of major carriers) So if you want to keep your landline phone number you have to port it to one of the Pay as You Go cell phone services, and then Port again from the wireless phone into Google Voice. You can buy a cheap used flip phone off of EBAY or Amazon to do that and then sell the phone again when you are done. I used PagePlus to do ours. I actually sold the phone on EBAY for almost $3 more than I paid for it. Google charges ($20 I think?) to port in a number. So my equipment cost plus the cost of porting was around $70 total I think and I made all that up in no phone bills after about 4 months.

These were the steps I followed, except he used ATT Go Phones and I used PagePlus. Once the Google Voice account was active with the correct phone number, then I connected the Obitalk Device. I just used the old phones we've always had at the house. The plug into the ObiTalk and work as usual.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/governmen...our-land-line-while-keeping-your-number/10455

Anveo is a separate VOIP service and company from Google Voice but the ObiTalk device can handle being hooked up to two of them simultaneously. I knows that all regular calls get handled via the Google Voice service and 911 calls get handled via Anveo. There are a list of other VOIP companies that can provide 911 service .... CallCentric and many more. If you search on the internet you can find tons of reviews. Set-up using the ObiTalk website and documentation was pretty easy, it was just follow the step by step directions from there.

 

[RitaE]

Adding: He also did an article on how to set-up the Obitalk Device with Google Voice.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/government/google-voice-a-cheapskates-guide-to-cheap-voip/10500