Google Voice

Comic: the host carries a glowing old telephone handset tagged MY NUMBER across a rope bridge from a foggy gray cliff to a warm cabin with a server on its porch, while a tiny clerk on the porch waves a stamped APPROVED form and shouts IT'S OURS!

The Paperwork Boss Fight, Then Port Day

MY OWN TEXTING · MESSAGE 03 · THE MOVEMoving a phone number is mostly forms. Then one morning, it's just done. Can’t I just forward it? The first question in September was the lazy one: could I leave the number in Google Voice and just forward everything to Telnyx? No. Telnyx won’t attach its texting service to a Google Voice number. To own the texting, I had to own the number. That meant porting. ...

Comic: the host sits on a park bench at dusk while a long scroll of text bubbles spills out of his phone, with a giant doorless gray tower labeled NO API behind him. He says TEN YEARS IN THERE?

Ten Years on a Borrowed Number

MY OWN TEXTING · MESSAGE 01 · THE PROBLEMFree is a great price until you want to do something the free thing doesn't allow. A great deal, for a while I got my business number through Google Voice in November 2015. It was perfect for a one-person shop. One number rang every device, texts showed up on my phone and my PC, voicemails got transcribed, and it cost nothing. ...