<p>Good experiences? Bad experiences? Any success with porting a telephone number to Google Voice?</p>
<p>I use google voice to put in a phone number when I don’t want to talk to people, it is easy to block spam.</p>
<p>We also use my number to forward our home phone to when we are on vacation. The email messages are usually great and we don’t have to remember to call home to check the message machine. </p>
<p>The email transcriptions are sometimes funny, but you can listen directly to the messages and it is great. </p>
<p>I was going to say we ported my Mom’s land line to Google Voice, but that isn’t true, we ported to Call Centric because of some weird problem with Google Voice at the time. Then I forwarded that number to a google voice account for her. That was several years ago. </p>
<p>So most of my experience is incoming calls and messages, not outgoing.
I used Goggle Voice with my iPad and wireless to make a few calls and it seemed to work better than I expected. Other than the forward thing, though I don’t have much recent experience. </p>
<p>We have it solely for making phone calls to Europe. It’s much cheaper than the per minute rate with AT&T. H calls his elderly aunt daily and it costs 2 cents per minute.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>I’m only really interested in using it to have calls forwarded/messages recorded. It would allow us to keep our fairly ancient land-line number from our old house when we put it up for sale/rent.</p>
<p>I’ll look up Call Centric too.</p>
<p>Happymom, for that Call Centric is great. Costs $2 a month . And send emails whenever there is a call. It will forward to your new home phone, too. I haven’t heard if you can port landline to Google Voice yet, but for sure Call Centric worked.</p>