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When the heck is Google voice going to support number portability?

• kgrin 16y ago
  When the heck are telcos going to support number portability to services like Google Voice?
  • chronomex 16y ago
    They do. Google isn't currently accepting port-ins.
  • johns 16y ago
    They do. It's up to Google to start supporting it.
• furyg3 16y ago
  There's a lot of features that (I suspect) are prohibiting GV from getting a larger footing. This may be one of them, since GV is preaching liberation from being tied to your service provider... but then tying you to them as a service provider. I have a GV number and love the service, but this reason prevents me from giving it out and using the service more. An even bigger "get with the program" feature is the ability to forward calls internationally. I'm a US-expat, and I'd kill for this feature (read: pay). I personally know many others who spend a lot of time traveling abroad, and pay for other half-baked solutions to this problem. And unlike portability, turning this on costs GV nothing. The ability to transcribe your pre-recorded calls (which can be done with voicemail already) seems like it would be pretty easy to turn on as well. This would be a magnet feature for anyone who interviews for a living, and would be peanuts to implement. I'm sure they're focusing on their core service, but it's been a year and I haven't really seen a lot of innovation going on over there.