While a landline can call a Google Voice number and ring on your PC, the tablet cannot be called in like manner.

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One premier feature is Google Voice extensions, which means that if I make a call from my Ooma line, the person I call sees my Google Voice number instead of my Ooma number.

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Another unnecessary cost: employees who call a company-paid 800 number to retrieve voice mail from their desktop phone instead of using free long distance on a cell phone.

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Then he tried to call his maid, but an impersonal female voice informed him that the number he had dialled was not in service.

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