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Quick Google Voice question:
multimoog
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My girlfriend's mom is convinced that if she doesn't have a land line in her apartment that she will die immediately when the Apocalypse comes a-knockin'. But she's also sick of paying for a phone line that only one person calls her on. So what I want to do is help her set up a Google Voice account that she can give to her mother under the pretense that she changed her landline to a cheaper service.
Yes, the problem between she and her mother goes much deeper than the surface issue of a land line, but that's not what I need to figure out. If we set up a Google Voice account, can we give the GV number to her mom so that it will show up on her cell, as well as look like a number that is separate from her cell number if she wants to make calls from it? Google's documentation either isn't clear on this or doesn't have it in an obvious place. I appreciate the help.
Yes, the problem between she and her mother goes much deeper than the surface issue of a land line, but that's not what I need to figure out. If we set up a Google Voice account, can we give the GV number to her mom so that it will show up on her cell, as well as look like a number that is separate from her cell number if she wants to make calls from it? Google's documentation either isn't clear on this or doesn't have it in an obvious place. I appreciate the help.
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Alternatively, you can port your current land line number to google voice. Then the number the mother knows about will stop being a land line, and will be a virtual number that forwards to a cell phone.
Second: What you want is possible if she has an Android phone, albeit somewhat awkward. You'd set the Voice account to forward to her cell so when Mom calls on it she can answer it there. If she wants to call Mom with her Voice number she has to have the App set up to show that number on Caller ID. It is a pretty simple toggle but a little buried I believe.
You can do the same thing by dialing into Voice with a non-Android phone and dialing from there but I've never done that so add an "I think" to this one.
I think cell phones are straight up illegal to use while driving these days in my state anyway.
Then just never answer it.
Not that I wish to encourage the web of lies thing.