I wish one of these companies would solve the problem of using these services on your home phone. I have service from Time Warner, but can't forward to Google Voice or Twilio because TW doesn't offer conditional call forwarding. So instead of forwarding to the third-party voice mail after 4 or so rings, I only forward after a half a ring, making the service useless. I imagine TW doesn't provide conditional call forwarding because they also offer a voice mail service, albeit much less feature-full and $4/month.
That'd be fine, provided I could port my existing number to their service, get a replacement number from my provider, and then buy a handset that would make calls from my number appear as though they come from the ported number (as you can with Android and Google Voice).
I guess a device that could forward a phone call after a number of rings would do it, but I don't think one exists for PSTN.
Comments
I wish one of these companies would solve the problem of using these services on your home phone. I have service from Time Warner, but can't forward to Google Voice or Twilio because TW doesn't offer conditional call forwarding. So instead of forwarding to the third-party voice mail after 4 or so rings, I only forward after a half a ring, making the service useless. I imagine TW doesn't provide conditional call forwarding because they also offer a voice mail service, albeit much less feature-full and $4/month.
Their vision of how you would use their service is to to use their number as your main number, and forward to your home phone.
That'd be fine, provided I could port my existing number to their service, get a replacement number from my provider, and then buy a handset that would make calls from my number appear as though they come from the ported number (as you can with Android and Google Voice).
I guess a device that could forward a phone call after a number of rings would do it, but I don't think one exists for PSTN.