How To Change My Land Line With Google Voice

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Posted 21 April 2018 - 09:24 PM

I seem to accept a trouble comprehending the Google vox stuff. I've read the pros and cons, using my current number, all that. Do any of yous know how, if possible, to change my landline number to my prison cell number? I want to keep Cricket since information technology is now a office of ATT and using the aforementioned arrangement, merely Frontier is killing me. I want to drop it considering every time I call to get the pecker reduced it keeps going up. I had a lot of stuff taken off my Borderland services, they turned effectually and added a bunch of stuff, and now it went from 165.00 to 272.00. ???????HUH!? Last summer they kept telling me fro 4 months that I had not paid my nib. Sent some dude out three times to disconnect information technology, my dog alerted me to someone outside, caught him, and, well, let's just say I only give 2 strikes and and so I made my signal conspicuously known. They are a terrible company to deal with.

Tell me if I'1000 thinking right on this, but with Straight Tv set, keeping Frontier Internet, and using Google Vox, I tin relieve 135.00 month. So, if I can have the landline and prison cell numbers the same, that would exist groovy. If not, no one except some friends have the landline number. It is only for backup in case my phone crashes. (Sorry, did non mean to exist TMI) :bananas: â€‹ :crazy:

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#2 softeyes

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Posted 21 April 2018 - 11:43 PM

Hi PianoMan55,

I sure feel your hurting with your ISP raising your plan rates! It has happened to me as well, and unfortunately in many cases you lot're trapped. Practise you have an alternating source where y'all can compare parcel plans? Regarding having your cell phone number being the same equally your landline, you would need to ask your jail cell phone carrier (Cricket) if they use a "porting process" to transfer your landline to your cell telephone. Here'south some information I constitute:

Read hither: https://www.fcc.gov/full general/wireless-local-number-portability-wlnp#wireline

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Tin consumers port a wireline number to a wireless phone?

Wireline-to-wireless porting is possible in some cases. Consumers interested in porting a number from a wireline to a wireless phone should cheque with the prospective new wireless carrier to see if wireline to wireless porting is an option for them.
If you lot port a number from a wireline phone to a wireless phone, your wireline long altitude carrier will non move with yous. Your long altitude service will more often than not be provided by your new wireless carrier.
Pursuant to a courtroom-ordered stay, most pocket-sized wireline carriers currently are not required to port numbers to wireless carriers until the FCC completes and publishes a study about the effect of the porting rules on pocket-sized carriers.
After the FCC completes and publishes its report about the upshot of the porting rules on minor wireline carriers, these carriers may still have an exemption from the porting requirements if they have received a country waiver. The law permits state public utility commissions to grant certain small wireline carriers waivers from the number portability requirements. Customers who want to port a wireline number to a wireless telephone and are told that they cannot should contact their state public utility commission to find out whether their wireline carrier has been granted a waiver.Click here for contact information for state commissionsOpens a New Window. . <-End snip->

And hither: https://transition.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/numbport.pdf

Regarding Google Voice, from what I take read in i commodity, yous would need to accept a landline for the service to work.

<-Snip> Google Voice handles this by linking with the PSTN (traditional landline telephone system) and the mobile network to hand over the calls. It works the post-obit manner: Whatever call initiated through Google Phonation necessarily has to pass through thePSTN , the traditional phone organisation. But the PSTN doesn't do all the work. The call is then handed to the Google space on the Internet, which is where the 'numbers are pooled'. Say the telephone call is directed to another Google Phonation number, that number is identified inside Google'south numbers, and from there, the call is sent to its terminal destination. <-Terminate Snip->

Source where yous'll detect the complete review:

https://www.lifewire.com/how-google-vocalism-works-3426682

(No worries almost TMI! It's never a trouble to give as much information every bit possible! (On a split notation, would y'all explain what this symbol you apply means:â€‹ ) Thanks!

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Posted 22 April 2018 - 02:01 AM

As usual, I was not thinking straight. What I should have asked was, tin I use my regular landline-type phone with Google Voice. Can I somehow, using adaptors, pick up my regular telephone and make and receive calls through Google? And can I proceed the same landline number I accept now. I will continue Cricket and get out it as-is. I just want to get rid of the $30 accuse for a phone I rarely use. Surely there are adaptors for this. I assume I would need to add a card to convert the telephone signal to computer-speak. Is this possible, like in the sometime days when we had to employ a phone modem to connect to message boards and such, and place the handset on the modem?
As for the symbol in my last post: you got me, dude. Wondered the aforementioned affair myself!!! Duh!!🤔😆

#4 JohnC_21

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Posted 22 Apr 2018 - 08:23 AM

You tin practice information technology by porting your land line to Vocalisation but you would need to purchase a box and a monthly fee for 911 service as Voice does non take 911 included. At that place is a center footstep though. You first need to port your landline number to a burner phone and so from there to Vox as Vox does not let porting from a landline. Ane you have the landline ported to a cell you can immediately port from the cell to Vox. I would recommend doing it through a company like Tello every bit they do not accuse for activation and y'all tin can get a cheap phone through them.

https://www.androidcentral.com/supersede-your-landline-35-google-vocalization-adapter-and-make-free-calls

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/keep-landline-ditch-phone-bill-with-unproblematic-device/

https://world wide web.doughroller.net/personal-finance/cut-another-string-google-phonation-home-telephone/

https://www.zdnet.com/commodity/google-vocalism-a-pace-past-step-primer-on-ditching-your-landline-while-keeping-your-number/

https://getvoip.com/weblog/2016/04/20/pros-cons-google-vocalization/

Note: With Google Phonation you can forward your landline phone number to your Cricket Phone avoiding your the utilize of a OBI box and 911 service. When someone calls your landline number Vocalism will automatically ring your jail cell. With Voice if you had other cell phones you lot could as well have Phonation ring them if someone calls the landline number you ported to Vocalization.

Edited by JohnC_21, 22 April 2018 - 06:46 PM.

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Posted 22 April 2018 - 06:31 PM

One thing I should mention is that y'all cannot make calls from whatsoever phone to which Google Voice forradthat will evidence the Google Voice number as the outgoing number on caller ID at the other end. Any device that has its own number volition show that number if you use the usual method to place a call from it.

The exception to this is if you lot accept a smartphone that also has Google Hangouts on it and you have set upwards your Google Vocalization to handle calls and SMS (texts) through Hangouts. If yous and so install Hangouts Dialer yous tin can use Hangouts to brand outgoing calls with your Google Voice number. This means you lot accept to have net service, though, whether via WiFi or a data plan from your cellular service provider.

I've been using Google Phonation via Hangouts for some years at present on both my computer and my smartphone, and for a number of years the smartphone did not have cellular service. I relied strictly on the near constant availability of a WiFi connection at that time.

Your Cricket phone should have 911 service and, if you're not wed to the number you take on it, you could port your landline number to information technology. Y'all could likewise do a double port where your Cricket number would get your Google Voice number and your landline number become your Cricket Number. Doing a port such every bit this almost guarantees that yous will have at least a day or so where one of your existing numbers will exist out of service as both ports happening simultaneously, downward to the day and hour, is highly improbable.

Having worked for one of the nation's major telecommunication companies in the 1990s makes me all too familiar with porting.

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