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I believe it's possible to migrate your cell number to GV, like you would with any other provider. I prefer GV here so that I can answer calls from essentially

I believe it's possible to migrate your cell number to GV, like you would with any other provider. I prefer GV here so that I can answer calls from essentially anywhere -- whether it be from my home phone, or from my gmail browser. When people text me, it arrives as a normal text on my cell phone, but also arrives as an email that I can simply reply to via the standard gmail interface. Voicemail also appear as normal messages in my email inbox, so yeah, there are a fair number of advantages using GV over your normal cell number.

commandar 14y ago
>I believe it's possible to migrate your cell number to GV, like you would with any other provider. You can, I have no desire to. It makes it easier for me to cleanly separate my work and personal life. Like I said, I give out different numbers to different people for this reason. I don't want a single number for everything. All the calls get routed to my cell phone, but it's easier for me to tell who's calling and possibly why if they go to different numbers. If I don't want to get business-related calls when I'm off on the weekend, I can just set GV to do not disturb while still being available for personal calls, etc. >Voicemail also appear as normal messages in my email inbox You can do this without porting your number. You just set up GV as your voicemail provider. You can do this from the GV app.