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02-23-2013, 03:47 PM | #2 |
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I'm a big GV user, but I just did it with my Sprint cell phone, so I can't say much about the landline process.
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02-23-2013, 04:05 PM | #3 |
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I've seen a couple documents of people porting their landline to a Gophone and then to google voice.
What sucks is that you purchase a prepaid phone and minutes then both become useless after the port. I just want some confirmation that people have successfully done it before I try since our landline number is our main contact number.
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02-23-2013, 04:23 PM | #5 |
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Nope, you can only port a cell phone number at this time. Hence the extra steps.
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02-23-2013, 09:36 PM | #6 |
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Here's a link that I've seen tossed around a few times on how to do it:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/government...r-number/10455 Last edited by The Rick; 02-23-2013 at 09:42 PM.. |
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02-23-2013, 09:40 PM | #7 |
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I was all ready to port my home number to Google Voice, then I found Ooma. Seemed like much less hassle, a little more reliable, and I'm only paying $3 and some change per month for home phone service.
Here's a referral link where you can get $40 off and free shipping: http://go.ooma.com/referral2/?referral_code=CAM9409 |
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Here's one on doing it from Vonage, which is really the same concept.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...4rmaqF_Go/edit |
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02-24-2013, 02:29 PM | #11 |
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Well, going to go for it with my current gophone. Transfered most of my funds balance to my wifes gophone so I won't have to lose too much money on it. Hopefully, I don't have any problems porting from my gophone to google voice. Then I will just reregister my gophone for a new number.
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so, to this point, it has been easier than the article makes it sound.
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I am starting to look into phone services for my parents. They have a landline and pay way too much to keep it. They aren't the most tech savvy, and I may not be able to help them set it up. What would you guys recommend for them? They use the landline quite a bit.
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02-24-2013, 03:01 PM | #15 |
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you can go the google voice route I am taking by using the links above OR you can just get the Obihai 100 from amazon and get an account at callcentric.com for $7 per month.
the difference being, google voice has no minutes limits while callcentric only gives you 500 minutes.
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