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发表于 2011-11-18 14:08:29
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之所以我在第一段里面提到您“可以享受至少半年的美国加拿大全免费电话服务”,是因为大多数美国人目前使用的VOIP服务都是Google Voice(GV),而GV已经宣布到今年年底之前全部免费。至于明年1月开始收费之后的定价,普遍的推测是会比Skype 目前的月租费更低(skype包美国加拿大免费通话的月租费是2.99美元,参见
http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/prices/pay-monthly/)。
因此,尚未开通GV的需要申请一个GV账户,然后自己选号,选用纽约市的一个免费电话号码,此后别人就通过这个号码和你联系。有关这一段的具体操作,请参考下面这段借用的文字:
You first have to go through the usual drill of setting up a Google Voice account. What you first want to do is get a brand new GMail address – DO NOT use your existing Gmail address that you use for your day-to-day e-mail, especially if you read and compose your e-mail online from with your web browser (in other words, the way most people use Gmail), because being logged into Gmail can potentially cause you to miss Google Voice calls on the same account. Once you have created a new Gmail account and are still logged in, navigate to http://voice.google.com and create a Google Voice account. You’ll need to select a number (use the search capability to help find one you can remember in the city you want) and you will need to temporarily set a destination for incoming calls, such as your cell phone or landline. Google Voice will call you on that line and require you to enter a confirmation code, so don’t try to just make up a phone number here. But keep in mind that you’re only going to use this number during setup, so don’t be too concerned about which number you use to accept the confirmation call.
(NOTE: If you are really attached to an existing Google Voice number associated with your primary GMail account, it is possible to just create a new GMail account that you won’t use for normal e-mail, then have your existing Google Voice number transferred to the new GMail account by using this form — the only hitch is that it can up to two weeks, but at least it will get your Google Voice number separated from your primary e-mail account. However, if you do that, you just might experience a situation where you can’t make or receive calls once the transfer is completed, despite having configured everything correctly — it doesn’t seem to happen to everyone, but if it happens to you see this thread for some troubleshooting advice that should get you going again.)
After the Google Voice account is created, you’ll want to do a couple of things from within the Google Voice online portal.
First, click on the Settings link, then click the Calls tab. Make sure the following three options on that page are set up as follows:
Call Screening: Off (although Google Voice doesn’t actually honor this setting now when the destination is Google Chat, they might someday)
Caller ID (in): Display caller’s number
Do Not Disturb: Make sure this is unchecked!
Then go to the Voicemail & Text link and set up your voicemail settings as you like.
Now, I will point out that before you do the next step (also in the Google Voice portal), the Obihai Technology folks advise that you need to do this:
To use the Google Voice communications service on your OBi, you must have made at least one call from your Gmail account’s “Call Phone” feature. To do this, sign-in to Gmail and place a call from your computer’s browser with the Gmail “Call Phone” function located on the lower left side of the Gmail window. If this is the first time the Google Voice communications service is used from this Gmail account, Google will alert you to the following: “Google Voice is an enhanced call management application and that Google Voice is not capable of placing or receiving emergency service calls.” You may read the Google Voice Terms of Service here:
http://www.google.com/googlevoice/legal-notices.html
Now go back into the Google Voice configuration portal and make what is probably the most important configuration change (if you don’t do this, it won’t work!): Click on the Phones tab and deselect (uncheck) the phone you used during initial setup of the account, and check only Google Chat.
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