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This forum post gives supposed instructions for free land line via Google Voice with inbound and outbound calling. How is this possible?
From what little I know I am under the impression that Google Voice assigns you a Google Voice number and calls made to that are redirected to some landline number or some cellphone number you already have. That is, already having a landline number or cellphone number is required and already having that will necessitate some paid phone plan.
Can someone explain how else would you get your landline associated to some phone number? I mean fundamentally there must be something out there that maintains a mapping from phone numbers to physical landlines to handle routing. How would you get a free number in that?
So when a call comes to your Google Voice number how does Google Voice know which Google chat client to route the call too? Is there somewhere where you specify route the call to the Google chat client with a specified IP addr? – user782220 – 2014-01-09T04:31:49.460
No, you associate your google chat account with your google voice account in the setup screen of google voice. When you log in to google chat the server sends any incoming calls in to the chat client the same way it would send a new chat message. It knows where the client is because the client logged in.
– Scott Chamberlain – 2014-01-09T04:36:56.330