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A google voice number would feel less "concrete" to me, since it's tied to a google account rather than a physical sim card/phone.
by jiggy2011 13y ago
A google voice number would feel less "concrete" to me, since it's tied to a google account rather than a physical sim card/phone.
- patio11 13y agoDo you routinely exercise purchasing authority on $20k consulting engagements? If you do, your preferences are anecdotal evidence of the business practices of one client firm. If you don't...
- jiggy2011 13y agoNot personally, but I have worked with people who do. There is always some measure of due diligence performed where "this guy only has a google voice number" would be unlikely to pass.
- jbail 13y agoHow do they perform this due diligence? Is there a way to tell if a number is a Google Voice number? This seems like an insane way to vet potential developers, by the way. Someone who bases a hiring decision on what brand of phone service your employee/contractor has chosen is probably not looking at the right metrics.
- jiggy2011 13y agoI haven't used google voice, but since the article mentioned that the client was not satisfied with a google voice number I assumed they must have had some way of knowing. You can take all sorts of little clues from these kinds of things. For example if a website is phrased and designed to look corporate but the only number published is a mobile and the email address ends in @hotmail.com then you know you might be dealing with a single freelancer.
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- isleyaardvark 13y agoHow would you know?
- mikeash 13y agoAnd furthermore, since numbers can be ported around to different providers, how would you continue to know? I have a Google Voice number that used to belong to a real actual cell phone.