4/3/14 8:44 AM

Is anyone here familiar with Google Phone? I want to see if I can use Google phone for our team's race hotline. As some in New England may know my team the Boston Road Club has run the Wells Ave training criterium weekly during the warm months in Newton MA. each season for the past 32 years. We have a race hotline telephone line and answering service we use to notify folks about race information, cancellations and for folks to leave messages with questions. We pay for this and I was wondering if we can use Google phone for the same purpose as it is free I believe. Any thoughts on this?

Thanks

4/3/14 9:53 AM

Are you talking about Google Voice? Or is GP something different?

4/3/14 10:00 AM

Sorry for the brain cramp I meant Google Voice....

4/3/14 12:46 PM

I use GV so that I have a business number that just feeds into my personal numbers, but I expect that you could use it for a "dead drop" of some sort...leave a message on tape, that sort of thing. What exactly do you want to do with it?

You can have multiple phones ring when a call comes in (the first phone answered gets the call). You can have voice mail (pretty basic, but it works). There's a reasonable speech-to-text schtick so you can read messages off-line.

4/3/14 12:56 PM

We want to use Google V as a "race hotline' we have a club number for folks to call to hear about the latest race schedule / cancellations (usually the early morning before the race in case there is a weather cancellation), Often people will leave messages to join the team, get more information or generally get in touch with the club. Right now someone has to check vmail to see if anyone left a message......

4/3/14 1:08 PM

It's worth a shot--since it's free... GV has been pretty reliable for me the last few years. Of course, I wouldn't know if someone couldn't get ahold of me!

4/3/14 2:05 PM

>>Of course, I wouldn't know if someone couldn't get ahold of me!<<

Andy, you indicated it was a business number. I suspect that if a client couldn't get hold of you and as a result a deadline was missed, then somehow that might eventually come to your attention...:)

4/3/14 5:15 PM

Yes, I guess so :-). Though most of my communication after the call is face-to-face or via email.

But I have no reason to doubt Google Voice. I like it.