That sounds like a cool setup. I used to daydream about putting together a neat setup like that with Asterisk but over time I’ve actually regressed and even started giving out my direct cell number instead of my Google Voice.*
Having kids, buying a house/land, starting a business, contracting with services - every once in awhile I’ll get a high priority call that I really don’t want to be delayed (emergency at school or daycare, last minute problem with land/house offer, etc.). One time even my doggie daycare called because my dog had collapsed and they were doing CPR in the background and needed my consent to emergently administer epinephrine.
I also live in a rural area and I wonder if I tried to get a local business or contractor to return a call if they’d assume they had a wrong number if they called and a robot asked them to do a math problem. I know I’d not infrequently get confused voicemails with my Google Voice number (“Not sure I’ve got the right number but ...”).
So in the interest of not wanting to risk those rare important calls being delayed or blackholed I’m one of those luddite bozos who answers every call and has to deal with hanging up on the occasional spam call. :-)
* The other reasons I’m dropping Google Voice are 1) it seems like it noticeably affects call quality, at least in my area (particularly w.r.t. latency; I imagine there are fundamental round tripping issues since I’m in the midwest, and I’m sure the cell networks also have a lot to answer for here compounding the problem with the inherent latency of modern voice calls compared to the old POTS) and 2) I’m trying to get ahead of Google pulling the plug on the service and leaving me to track down and update phone number info everywhere and 3) not being able to do iOS stuff with other “blue text” phones (“call me on my other number in order to Facetime”)
Having kids, buying a house/land, starting a business, contracting with services - every once in awhile I’ll get a high priority call that I really don’t want to be delayed (emergency at school or daycare, last minute problem with land/house offer, etc.). One time even my doggie daycare called because my dog had collapsed and they were doing CPR in the background and needed my consent to emergently administer epinephrine.
I also live in a rural area and I wonder if I tried to get a local business or contractor to return a call if they’d assume they had a wrong number if they called and a robot asked them to do a math problem. I know I’d not infrequently get confused voicemails with my Google Voice number (“Not sure I’ve got the right number but ...”).
So in the interest of not wanting to risk those rare important calls being delayed or blackholed I’m one of those luddite bozos who answers every call and has to deal with hanging up on the occasional spam call. :-)
* The other reasons I’m dropping Google Voice are 1) it seems like it noticeably affects call quality, at least in my area (particularly w.r.t. latency; I imagine there are fundamental round tripping issues since I’m in the midwest, and I’m sure the cell networks also have a lot to answer for here compounding the problem with the inherent latency of modern voice calls compared to the old POTS) and 2) I’m trying to get ahead of Google pulling the plug on the service and leaving me to track down and update phone number info everywhere and 3) not being able to do iOS stuff with other “blue text” phones (“call me on my other number in order to Facetime”)