At 10 Jan 2008 23:39:37 +0000 Steve Sobol wrote:

> There are some reasons for certain people. I'm planning on using it with
> the phone line for our small Jewish congregation here in Victorville. I
have
> no way of getting notified when their Verizon landline rings or has a
voice
> mail message sent to it (and we're not big enough to have people employed
> full time, and I'm the one tasked with checking voicemail). This is just
one
> example; I'm sure there are other good ones.


How do you plan to use it that way? Use the GC number as the "new" number
for the congregation and set it to ring the landline (and your cell), or
set the landline to forward to GC if unanswered and notify you via e-mail?

> I'd like to have more than one number, though, like a Cleveland number in
> addition to my Victorville number so I can be local to people back home
who
> want to call me.

That's a problem. I tried setting up two GC accounts but they won't allow
two GC numbers to forward to the same physical line.

> Maybe at some point they could offer that as an extra-cost
> option.


That'd be nice.


> Also, they mention free incoming minutes on phone calls to the GC numbers.
> But they mention nothing about outgoing. Does this mean they're planning
on
> charging for the outgoing leg on each call??

Perhaps, but given that they claim all features will be free during the beta,
and Google's propensity for "permanent" beta testing, I'm not sure we'll
have to worry about it in our lifetimes! ;-)