Not very long ago I thought I saw an eol announced for GVoice <>< Jack On Apr 15, 2014 8:35 PM, "Rich Braun" <[email protected]> wrote:
> For a couple of years, I've been using the Obihai Obi110 VoIP device to > serve > as my phone gateway. It plugs directly into the Ethernet and provides a > POTS > jack to which all the cordless phones in the house are connected. It's > always > supported Google Voice as its preferred vendor, but due to and end-of-life > announcement for XMPP protocol (for reasons that are vaguely related to > some > unspecified need imposed by Google Hangouts technology), Obihai has > announced > a list of other vendors: > http://blog.obihai.com/2013/10/important-message-about-google-voice.html > > A rival claims that its product will keep on working, which begs the > question > of why Obihai is sitting on its butt not implementing whatever protocol is > claimed by said rival (GVMate). > > How is all this related to BLU/Linux? Well, if I have to start paying for > VoIP service, I don't want to have to fire up a spare PC running Windows to > run 24/7 phone service (not at $.35/kWh for the electric bill). > > Do I finally say screw it, I've had a "landline" phone for too many years, > and > cut the cord? Or is there something about as good as Google Voice that I > should consider switching to? Frankly, GV just simply *blows away* all > rivals > in terms of features/capabilities/everything-- regardless of price. The > fact > that it's been free for years is beside the point. > > -rich > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
