OT: Google Voice question.

[Brian Cluff]

Try setting the do not disturb on the line you want answered 
immediately.  You should be able to set to for 999days and then you'll 
have to set it again in 2015.  In theory that should make it answer 
immediately.

If not, then you are trying to use a Pontiac Fiero as a moving van, it's 
just not made to do that.

Brian


On 09/13/2012 05:46 PM, joe at actionline.com wrote:
>
>> I think you misunderstand what Google Voice is.
>
> Is it wrong of me to want to use the many good features of Google Voice
> that I very much appreciate in the way that I want to use it (and keeping
> my 20-year established and widely published land line number as my
> primary, ring-first number)?  I do not want to go through the nuisance and
> annoyance of changing my primary, published telephone number everywhere.
>
>> 1) It is NOT voicemail. It has voicemail, but it's intended
>> to function opposite to a voicemail service.
>
> To each his own.
>
>> 2) People should be calling your Google Voice number directly; it then
>> forwards to (rings) one or more actual phones (home phone, cellphone,
>> gmail, etc...) and redirects to voicemail if you don't pick up.
>
> That is just not what I need or want.
>
>> The idea is that you give everyone your Google Voice number, but not your
>> home or cell number(s).  Then you can change home or cell service without
>> impact to people who want to call you.
>
> Again, that is not what I need or want.
>
>> You also gain control options, such as setting some callers to only ring
>> through on weekdays, or setting some callers to ring the home phone but
>> not the cellphone.
>
> Again, that is not what I need or want.
>
>> So the reason it doesn't work the way you want is that your concept has it
>> behind your normal phone; it's actually the reverse in that your normal
>> phone is *behind* Google Voice.
>
> Again, I just want my "normal" land-line phone to be my primary telephone
> and my primary telephone number.  Is it wrong to want that and to want to
> use Google Voice in the way I want and need to use it?
>
> I have two different Google Voice numbers for two different applications,
> one personal and one business. For the business application, *all* calls
> to my toll free number are forwarded instantly and directly to my business
> Google Voice number and I need that number answered by voice mail on the
> *first ring* because that toll free number is *never* answered "live" and
> the 25 second (five+ ring) delay is a serious detriment.  All calls *must*
> be recorded for my business application and the transcribing that Google
> Voice does for those calls is extremely valuable.  The 25-second five-ring
> delay is extremely detrimental.
>
> Judging from the many posts on the 'net on this same subject, many, many
> other people have the same need that I have.
>
>
>
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