Comments on: Obivoice = OBi Heaven: Dumping Google Voice for Less Than 10¢ a Day

By: Danny

Danny — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 16:59:29 +0000

Do you recommend porting our google numbers, or forwarding from google voice to obivoice? [WM: See this thread for some tips.]

By: twinclouds

twinclouds — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 22:23:52 +0000

I have been testing ObiVoice since I seeing this article. Everything worked fine. I can connect to them though softphone, asterisk and Android apps. It is essentially a standard voip service with a good monthly rate. I hope they will be successful.
The only question is that if they will be profitable with this rate. It will be interesting to see their business model.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 02:03:06 +0000

The $60/2 year plan is now for 2000 minutes/month; unlimited minutes are now $75/2 years. There’s also a 500 minute/month plan for $40/2 years. Still a good deal if you’re going to be using the phone, and they make setup simple (clever to use a QR code to configure their softphone app).

By: Trousle Undrhil

Trousle Undrhil — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 14:59:43 +0000

And how long will it be before Obivoice realizes how much more money they could be making and start charging more per year or start charging per month instead?

[WM: They already have. 🙂 ]

I’m sorry. Voice of IP is a nice gimmick, but until everyone has good internet and until things calm down and stop changing in the voip community, there are just too many changes and too many problems.

Let me put it this way: say I go with voip service for my house .. I still have a cell phone because there is not a decent wifi alternative *everywhere* to allow me to carry a wireless SIP phone around with me. So, why double up on what I am paying for when I already have the "presense" that I need with a cell phone number – anyone who has that number can get me just about anywhere. And, guess what? There is no goofy setup required involving blue-tooth and a wired (or wireless) ethernet connection.

By: rich talcott

rich talcott — Sun, 19 Jan 2014 15:12:04 +0000

Signed up for 2 years and started my port from aXvoice. i hope these guys can stay afloat with these prices or hopefully they raise them if they need to.

By: Alvin Petitt

Alvin Petitt — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 04:36:03 +0000

Pretty impressed with OBivoice. I was having a problem getting my number ported via the website. Initiated a support chat and Ryan, the CEO, answered. After asking some questions to make sure I was attempting it right, he went ahead and initiated the port manually. He wasn’t sure why it wasn’t working via the web but took care of it for me. Very good customer service.

By: Nerd Uno

Nerd Uno — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 19:15:58 +0000

FULL DISCLOSURE: Following release of our article, we were notified by the CEO of Obivoice that the company was applying a $9.95 credit to our account "to recognize the effort you’ve put in to starting off great conversation about VoIP services on the web and the [Nerd Vittles] articles." This contribution in no way affected our evaluation of the Obivoice service, nor did we solicit the contribution. Also following release of the article, Obivoice implemented a referral commission program in which we now participate to support the Nerd Vittles and PBX in a Flash projects. Just sign up through the Nerd Vittles Referral Link and the rest of automagic. After release of the article, the price of the service plans changed as well. You can take advantage of a $15 off coupon by entering promo code: NERDVITTLES.