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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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(Score: 3, Interesting) by edIII on Tuesday January 31 2017, @08:53PM
Try again, because SMS messaging works better than that. I dunno about doing it over VoIP, because to my knowledge, it isn't done that way. I realize that Asterisk does have messaging capabilities, but that isn't exactly SMS, and doesn't exactly have full support in the various Endpoints and VoIP applications. I can see that being a clusterfuck simply because it is so new. Video is fairly new too and we're only starting to crack that one open.
My experience with SMS text messaging is highly reliable. Red Oxygen is a very large provider that specializes in SMS services through email or web interfaces. I've sent many thousands of messages through them (weekly), and received hundreds of messages in response. I've not used Twilio yet, but they support txt messaging, and MUCH cheaper than Red Oxygen, AND THE DID DOES VoIP AT THE SAME TIME. That last one I've waited years to come to market because previously your VoIP number and SMS number were required to be different. Red Oxygen also has software that integrates SMS messaging with Microsoft Outlook and it works extremely well, something I've not seen other providers do.
I'm not even trying to develop SMS capabilities alongside VoIP signalling. Instead I'm developing SMS-over-Email platforms that make SMS messaging more or less transparent through your email client, which nearly every smart phone will have set up. The subject line can contain the DID, but I even considered attaching stuff inline into the message to track conversations. I'm working on milter rules to allow you to pass the phone number as an email address too, which then allows me to connect to the vendor API directly. Ultimately the best way to do it will be through email and it should be a lot more reliable than what you've experienced before.
SMS with VoIP providers is exploding. The major ones that I've dealt with are starting to deploy it, and I know of 3 large scale VoIP providers with SMS services already. If Google sucks at it, then that speaks volumes about the quality of their service.
Patience. It will be here soon :)
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