(1) Go to Best Buy and buy a MagicJack.
(2) Pay $10 extra for a "vanity number" when registering it, if you
want to. (It's well worth it!)
(3) Activate the call-forwarding feature and FORWARD your new
magicjack number to your Google Voice number.
(4) Unplug your magicjack and put it away in a drawer.
(5) Give out your new vanity magicjack number to everyone!
NOW, .....
(A) Everyone can call your number.... because calls are going to
your magicjack number.... then forwarding to your GV number....
(B) All calls still go into, and through, your Google Voice...
(C) Even if Google messes with your Google Account (i.e. their
anti-spam robots wrongly shut your account down!), you still control
YOUR main (advertised) number! You can redirect where calls go... on
magicjack.com with one click!
Optionally, buy a second magicjack to actually USE as your home
landline phone service (and have your GV ring on it as well)...
Magicjack service costs less than $1.60 per month and is EXCELLENT!
Bruce Wagner
http://brucewagner.com
I think Google should have blocked calls answered by a recording which
tells the caller,
"Your call has been blocked due to traffic pumping. Call or write to
the FCC to complain and ask the FCC to eliminate local access charges
to rural carriers."
I totally think the FCC should eliminate local access charges to rural carriers.
If people in rural areas need phone service.... then THEY should pay
higher subscription rates.... NOT the callers!
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/busine
Bruce Wagner

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