Google Voice

[darkstar]

Does anyone know that if we use our Google Voice numbers .. does it count as in-network calling?

I would like go through GV... but not if it doesn't use anyone's anytime minutes.

 

[shima]

if it dials through google voice then your call goes through the proxy number, and that uses your minutes. I have it set to prompt me on every call if I want to use google voice or not

 

[demon117]

As far as I know any call coming in to you from GV is against your minutes, if you use voip over the network connection (dunno if there are apps for that yet) it shouldn't use your minutes. But every call from Google Voice I can think of will count against ya.

 

[darkstar]

ooh well since i dont have an unlimited minute plan.. looks like GV is gonna hit the bench. thanks for the help!

 

[demon117]

Since I don't have unlimited texts, well as of the 14th I wont, I'm going to use GV and Gmail to catch and send my texts... Keep the app around as it will be useful and you can use it to screen calls and make em occasionally, it's just not a VOIP solution.

 

[UncleMike]

Unless you're on a bottom-rung (minute-wise) plan you should have 5 or 10 Friends and Family numbers you can specify, to which you will get unlimited calling that doesn't count against your anytime minutes. Just add your "proxy" number to this list to cover your outbound calls, and add your Google Voice number to the list to cover inbound calls. For inbound calls you'll also have to set Google Voice to present you Google Voice number as the Caller ID for this to work for inbound calls.

This seems to be a common tactic in just about every other forum I've run across. Am I missing something here?

 

[darkstar]

yeah believe it or not.. but we share a 700 min plan with 5 people... and have never gone over. everyone we know is on vzw.

 

[UncleMike]

yeah believe it or not.. but we share a 700 min plan with 5 people... and have never gone over. everyone we know is on vzw.

I believe it. When I was on a 1400 minute family share plan with my wife and 11-year-old son I think the max they used (combined) in any one month was 50 minutes. I think Google Voice is still worth keeping around as a service, if not the app itself. Before having a Droid or other phone on which I could "easily" use Google Voice, I still used it in cases where I didn't want people having my real phone number. If they called back (my Google Voice number) and it became a problem, I could just block their calls.

 

[largeselection]

Yea I have a 450 min plan and I've never gotten up to 50%. Everyone I call or calls me is on verizon and people who I don't know who call me for work call me at work

 

[darkstar]

yeah thats gotta be one of the best features of google voice.

 

[Noseeums]

There's no minutes to be used if it's night or the weekend