On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:53, Mark Phillips <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Daniel Pittman <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:34, Bill Barry <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Mark Phillips
>> > <[email protected]> wrote:
[...]
>> As far as I know the wifi calling thing lets you be billed minutes,
>> indeed. GV definitely does.
>
> If I understand correctly, there is a cost to use GV, so I pay for that. And
> I get billed minutes from my carrier to use GV. Am I correct?
So, I just checked my bill, which T-Mobile helpfully sent yesterday,
and it confirms my understanding: I am paying "minutes" for Google
Voice calls, at least some of the time. (I think it is just like
someone calling me would cost minutes, but am not actually certain
enough of how US mobile plans work to be sure of that. :)
[...]
> If GV is actually calling my Tmo number, then where does the wifi come in?
It doesn't. GV uses the regular phone network at both ends, and VoIP
in the middle...
> With T-mobile, any minutes that I talk over Wifi, and not their network are
> free - no charge against my plan minutes. It doesn't sound, from your
> description, that GV works within that framework.
...but if your T-Mobile wifi calls are free then so too would be GV
calls while the wifi calling was active.
It is probably easiest to think of the "call" part of GV as being
*three* phone calls:
you <=> Google Voice <=> your caller / caleee
Those first and last steps work just like regular phone calls as far
as you are concerned; they happen to proxy through GV, but you can't
really tell.
[...]
Regards,
Daniel
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