Comments on: Google Voice For Mobile: One Number To Rule Them All http://searchengineland.com/google-voice-for-mobile-one-number-to-rule-them-all-22417 Search Engine Land: Must Read News About Search Marketing & Search Engines Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:30:13 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: avazed http://searchengineland.com/google-voice-for-mobile-one-number-to-rule-them-all-22417/comment-page-1#comment-6322 avazed Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:21:56 +0000 http://searchengineland.com/?p=22417#comment-6322 Very interesting concept, linking all your numbers to one place. In the long run, people who want to call you shouldn't worry about which number to use or which device to call (your mobile or home or office), they should be calling a person, not a device. So there should only be one number per person for life, and we should be able to decide which device should ring depending on where we are at any given time! Google is getting us one step closer to that by linking all our current phones to just one number... But the thing that Google hasn't been able to do though, is to link people's *old* phone numbers to the google number. Or their old emails, or skype IDs, or all the other online ID's. Ideally, we would want to get our one and only google number to "replace" all those other bulky or outdated contact alternatives too... Btw, avakit.com is a great help with that, highly recommended! Very interesting concept, linking all your numbers to one place. In the long run, people who want to call you shouldn’t worry about which number to use or which device to call (your mobile or home or office), they should be calling a person, not a device. So there should only be one number per person for life, and we should be able to decide which device should ring depending on where we are at any given time! Google is getting us one step closer to that by linking all our current phones to just one number…

But the thing that Google hasn’t been able to do though, is to link people’s *old* phone numbers to the google number. Or their old emails, or skype IDs, or all the other online ID’s. Ideally, we would want to get our one and only google number to “replace” all those other bulky or outdated contact alternatives too… Btw, avakit.com is a great help with that, highly recommended!

]]> By: chrisjohnston http://searchengineland.com/google-voice-for-mobile-one-number-to-rule-them-all-22417/comment-page-1#comment-6225 chrisjohnston Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:31:34 +0000 http://searchengineland.com/?p=22417#comment-6225 Explain exactly how you are making calls over data. To make calls from Google Voice Google makes the call for you and then connects your call to that call. That explains why your callers see the call coming from Google Voice. You are still using your minutes on your cell phone plan in this scenario. Google also routes the incoming calls to your cellphone and again this uses your minutes. Some carriers like AT&T also prohibit VOIP calls over their cellular data network in their terms of service. I would love to be able to make Skype type calls over my data network and give AT&T less of my money for their overpriced minute plans. I just don't see how Google Voice is going to do this. Explain exactly how you are making calls over data. To make calls from Google Voice Google makes the call for you and then connects your call to that call. That explains why your callers see the call coming from Google Voice. You are still using your minutes on your cell phone plan in this scenario. Google also routes the incoming calls to your cellphone and again this uses your minutes. Some carriers like AT&T also prohibit VOIP calls over their cellular data network in their terms of service.
I would love to be able to make Skype type calls over my data network and give AT&T less of my money for their overpriced minute plans. I just don’t see how Google Voice is going to do this.

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