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When we first introduced Google Voice our goal was to create "one number for life"—a phone number that's tied to you, rather than a single device or a location. Since then, millions of people have signed up to use Google Voice to call, text and get voicemail on all their devices. It's been several years since we've made significant updates to the Google Voice apps (and by several, we mean around five ;)), but today we're bringing a fresh set of features to Google Voice with updates to our apps on Android, iOS and the web.
Source: https://blog.google/products/google-voice/ringing-2017-updates-our-google-voice-apps/
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Ringing in 2017 With Updates to Our Google Voice Apps
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I'm mentally OVERDRAWN! What's that SIGNPOST up ahead? Where's ROD
STERLING when you really need him?
(Score: 1) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Tuesday January 31 2017, @07:29PM
I currently use voip,ms
Their SMS service appears relatively reliable but you have to use their crappy web-interface. One thing that implies is: no notifications when you receive a message (though they have a (polled) API for checking messages IIRC).
Another annoying thing with them is that their TOU clearly say that you are not supposed to rely on them. However, they also offer a white-lable service. That means that it is hard to comply with the TOU by searching for more than one VOIP provider, since you don't know how many are just fly-by-night resellers of the same handful of services.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 31 2017, @07:58PM
You can also text via email, if you have it set up. The limit is that is has to be in reply to another message. Therefore, I keep an email folder full of received text messages, so that way I can just reply from there.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Wednesday February 01 2017, @04:13AM
Please tell me you aren't paying for Voip.....
Dude, its free, unless you need a POTS handoff for outgoing calls.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 1) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Wednesday February 01 2017, @05:32AM
Until most people get off the POTS, I need POTS hand-off capability.
To be honest, I am not even set up to handle non POTS calls at the moment. Companies like Google and Facebook don't federate their VOIP servers, so I am not alone.
(Score: 2) by ilsa on Wednesday February 01 2017, @05:09PM
I had forgotten about the god awful UIs. That was also a major contributor to me giving up. I tried voip.ms, but their UI was so unbelievably cumbersome that I dropped them fairly quickly. Anveo is much better, and they actually advertise SMS as a feature rather than something that is just 'in beta'. UI was better, and I was able to direct SMS to pushover so that I would still get timely notifications.
Unfortunately a ran into several situations where my sip line was not treated as a cell phone, and the sender just didn't send the text. This was especially a problem when trying to use MFA.
I had hoped I could cobble together a 100% working solution using VOIP, but it was impossible. It was like, 95% there, but that was 5% not good enough, and eventually I had to come to the conclusion that I was better off paying the stupid expensive cell phone fees than having unreliable and cumbersome communications.