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    News - Google enables number porting with Google Voice

    New service allows existing phone numbers to be transferred to Google’s web-based system.
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    Re: News - Google enables number porting with Google Voice

    This means that a PC, landline and mobile could all ring whenever your Google Voice number is dialed, making you accessible no matter where you are.
    *shudder* good lord

    I can't think of anything more horrific...

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    Re: News - Google enables number porting with Google Voice

    Quote Originally Posted by scaryjim View Post
    *shudder* good lord

    I can't think of anything more horrific...
    I'm pretty sure they haven't disabled the ability to ignore calls

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    Re: News - Google enables number porting with Google Voice

    Quote Originally Posted by BullDogg View Post
    I'm pretty sure they haven't disabled the ability to ignore calls
    just made it more difficult is all
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    Re: News - Google enables number porting with Google Voice

    Quote Originally Posted by scaryjim View Post
    *shudder* good lord

    I can't think of anything more horrific...
    Just think, you could have telemarketers pestering you morning, day, and night, no matter where you are!
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    ...every time Creative bring out a new card range their advertising makes it sound like they have discovered a way to insert a thousand Chuck Norris super dwarfs in your ears...

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    Re: News - Google enables number porting with Google Voice

    Since the only thing that rings is my mobile, I'm not seeing a whole lot of use from this for me! Interesting tech though.

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    Re: News - Google enables number porting with Google Voice

    If we had bought the house we had been looking at in the summer, this would have been brilliant for me. The village was on the side of a cliff, and mobile signals were pretty much non-existent past a certain point. So this service would mean that my landline would have rung instead of my mobile. Or if my better half was on the phone, my PC would ring. Likewise if I'm overseas using wireless on my laptop, it would get the call instead of racking up roaming charges.

    Just because you can have it ring all device at once, doesn't mean you have to have it that way.

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