Comments on: Cheap and Easy Ways to Stay Connected Worldwide Using VOIP Telephony: http://blog.huddle.net/cheap-and-easy-ways-to-stay-connected-worldwide-using-voip-telephony Helping you work better together Tue, 25 May 2010 15:44:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Boulder, CO http://blog.huddle.net/cheap-and-easy-ways-to-stay-connected-worldwide-using-voip-telephony/comment-page-1#comment-1379 Boulder, CO Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:00:24 +0000 http://blog.huddle.net/?p=2228#comment-1379 I've been using Google Voice as my main mobile number for about two months now. I Have a MyTouch phone with Google Android software as the operating system. I love Google Voice for it's abundance of features - Customizable voice mail greetings by person or group. - Message are transcribed and I can get an email notification. - By having my GV number as one of my MYFavs allows me to do all of my outgoing calls for free. This is really Cool!! (and saves me a lot of money) - Incoming calls are also free if you turn off caller ID, and have the incoming call show as your GV number. But caller ID is so valuable to me, that I can't bring myself to leave it off - so I get charged for incoming calls. Note: phone companies charge based on the caller ID phone number. If you have your GV number show and it's one of your myfavs - you don't get charged. What I don't really like about GV some for is: - There is a delay when making ongoing calls. It usually takes about 30 seconds (guessing) for the call to initiate. - Some time the network is busy and it ask if you'd like to try with GV again. If the network is still busy then I resort to calling with my cell phone's number. - For the most part connectivity is good. But I also have a couple of calls dropped every 15 to 20 calls or so. Because I lose some of these calls when I'm standing still and talking to people on land lines, I've concluded that GV is the problem. I have been told that because Google voice first connect via data (vs voice) that data spikes are the most likely cause of my GV dropped calls. - The other day - I believe it was Wednesday - the GV network was definitely down most of the day. I got a lot of confirmation on this from other GV users who post on Twitter. - There may be a touch more lag on GV calls vs regular cell calls. As you can see I've been going through some "near beta" stage headaches. But I'm confident that Google is actively making GV better and I'm looking forward to the much anticipated release of Android 2.0. (due out in a couple of months?) This major upgrade will provide a much more robust platform for 3rd party app companies to develop even better apps. Over all I'm quite pleased with GV though. It's tough to argue with free calls and all of the powerful features it has. I hope this has been helpful to a few of you. Please leave comments - I'll try to check back and answer questions. Rich I’ve been using Google Voice as my main mobile number for about two months now. I Have a MyTouch phone with Google Android software as the operating system.
I love Google Voice for it’s abundance of features
- Customizable voice mail greetings by person or group.
- Message are transcribed and I can get an email notification.
- By having my GV number as one of my MYFavs allows me to do all of my outgoing calls for free. This is really Cool!! (and saves me a lot of money)
- Incoming calls are also free if you turn off caller ID, and have the incoming call show as your GV number. But caller ID is so valuable to me, that I can’t bring myself to leave it off – so I get charged for incoming calls. Note: phone companies charge based on the caller ID phone number. If you have your GV number show and it’s one of your myfavs – you don’t get charged.

What I don’t really like about GV some for is:
- There is a delay when making ongoing calls. It usually takes about 30 seconds (guessing) for the call to initiate.
- Some time the network is busy and it ask if you’d like to try with GV again. If the network is still busy then I resort to calling with my cell phone’s number.
- For the most part connectivity is good. But I also have a couple of calls dropped every 15 to 20 calls or so. Because I lose some of these calls when I’m standing still and talking to people on land lines, I’ve concluded that GV is the problem. I have been told that because Google voice first connect via data (vs voice) that data spikes are the most likely cause of my GV dropped calls.
- The other day – I believe it was Wednesday – the GV network was definitely down most of the day. I got a lot of confirmation on this from other GV users who post on Twitter.
- There may be a touch more lag on GV calls vs regular cell calls.

As you can see I’ve been going through some “near beta” stage headaches. But I’m confident that Google is actively making GV better and I’m looking forward to the much anticipated release of Android 2.0. (due out in a couple of months?) This major upgrade will provide a much more robust platform for 3rd party app companies to develop even better apps.
Over all I’m quite pleased with GV though. It’s tough to argue with free calls and all of the powerful features it has.

I hope this has been helpful to a few of you. Please leave comments – I’ll try to check back and answer questions.
Rich

]]> By: Alexander van Dijl http://blog.huddle.net/cheap-and-easy-ways-to-stay-connected-worldwide-using-voip-telephony/comment-page-1#comment-1372 Alexander van Dijl Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:50:15 +0000 http://blog.huddle.net/?p=2228#comment-1372 We have launched VraagAlex VOIP for free international calling. For more information, please check out http://www.vraagalex.nl/telecom We have launched VraagAlex VOIP for free international calling. For more information, please check out http://www.vraagalex.nl/telecom

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