| Rural Communication Breakdown - Google Voice won't connect or receive calls in rural areas. Suggestions? | trevor.reichman | 8/1/12 9:35 AM | This problem just started this week after using google voice for over a year without any real problems... Apparently it is affecting rural communities like mine and the following link will explain why... http://www.bigbend.net/voice/local-calling-2/c |
| Re: Rural Communication Breakdown - Google Voice won't connect or receive calls in rural areas. Suggestions? | Craig Long | 8/1/12 12:14 PM | It sounds like it is not an issue with Google Voice but an issue with the telephone company. You can bypass the telephone company if you want to make and receive calls over WiFi but perhaps you don't have a good internet connection either. |
| Re: Rural Communication Breakdown - Google Voice won't connect or receive calls in rural areas. Suggestions? | Papa Bear | 8/2/12 6:01 AM | Is your phone service roaming? Phone call delivery can be delayed if your carrier's infrastructure isn't well maintained. Connection is dependent on many factors; QoS, phone signal, leased wireless tower, SMS Gateways, network traffic, etc. What hap |
| Re: Rural Communication Breakdown - Google Voice won't connect or receive calls in rural areas. Suggestions? | trevor.reichman | 8/2/12 9:02 AM | Thanks for the comments. Let me clarify though. I am on a landline. Folks using google voice can't call me AND when I use google voice from home to connect my landline to an outside party, it won't connect. My phone company says that it is not on the |
| Re: Rural Communication Breakdown - Google Voice won't connect or receive calls in rural areas. Suggestions? | Papa Bear | 8/2/12 9:51 AM | Least Cost Routing (hopscotch) has been used for years in the global telecom industry. Shouldn't be an issue if your carrier is using a fiber network between their central offices, but may be an issue with the "last mile" to reach you from their cent |
| Re: Rural Communication Breakdown - Google Voice won't connect or receive calls in rural areas. Suggestions? | Craig Long | 8/2/12 8:02 PM | You mean you cannot dial 1+ your GV# area code + GV phone number, press *, enter your PIN, press 2, dial 1+area code+phone number of your party and it doesn't work? |
| Re: Rural Communication Breakdown - Google Voice won't connect or receive calls in rural areas. Suggestions? | Craig Long | 8/3/12 1:31 PM | followed by the # sign, I forgot to add. |
| Re: Rural Communication Breakdown - Google Voice won't connect or receive calls in rural areas. Suggestions? | mudwoman | 8/3/12 9:38 PM | Is there any way you can test Papa Bear's theory that this is a local issue? Either by trying to receive a call to your mobile number from another location that would hit off of a different cell tower. Or you could try "borrowing" a landline phone nu |