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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: 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.