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Google has launched a phone/landline service for its Google Fiber customers, called Fiber Phone. It allows you to use a "cloud-based" phone number from any tablet, PC, or phone:
For $10/month, you get unlimited local and nationwide calling, and the same affordable rates as Google Voice for international calls. You can keep your old phone number, or pick a new one. You can use call waiting, caller ID, and 911 services just as easily as you could before. Fiber Phone can also make it easier to access your voicemail—the service will transcribe your voice messages for you and then send as a text or email.
[...] Your Fiber Phone number lives in the cloud, which means that you can use it on almost any phone, tablet or laptop. It can ring your landline when you're home, or your mobile device when you're on-the-go. [...] To stay updated on the latest, sign up here.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 30 2016, @06:20PM
gvoice is the one google product I use too (since grand central first opened their doors too)
I would switch if there was something with at least the same set of features and the same ease of pseudo-anonymity.
I can buy a burner phone to create a new gvoice account (you need a working legit phone to create a new gvoice account now) and then let the burner expire and keep the gvoice account for texting and/or hook it up to an obihai routed through a VPN so even if you have multiple obihais they don't share the same IP address as far as google knows and since it is "free" I don't have to worry about payment info being used to unmask my privacy either.
That lets me use different phone numbers for different parts of my life and firewall even the meta-data