So there it is… connecting to a Google Voice number via a SIP address no longer works for me, too. After I wrote on Monday about how you could connect to Google Voice numbers via a SIP URI, many folks said that the service wasn’t working for them… or did work and then stopped. So many folks were reporting issues on Twitter or blogs that I asked yesterday if Google was hanging up on SIP connections to GV numbers.
Through it all, though, my ability to call Google Voice numbers via SIP kept working perfectly fine, while it stopped working (or never worked) for pretty much everyone else who had tried it. (except for one other person who saved my sanity!) Several people on Twitter thought I must have some kind of “magic”… but all I knew was that it kept on working.
Until this morning.
It’s dead now.
Using SJphone to call the exact same number that has worked fine for the past two days now only gets me a constant ringing.
So whatever “magic” I may have had is gone… gone, gone, gone…
Let’s hope that Google will in fact bring back this capability… and maybe even go on to provide the other side of SIP interoperability that Todd Vierling wrote about (and others have agitated around for some time). The key point being to let us point our Google Voice numbers to SIP endpoints in addition to regular PSTN phone numbers.
It was great, Google, to get a taste of SIP interconnection to Google Voice… if only for a few days. Can you please bring it back? And even make it better?
We’re out here waiting…
P.S. For those not understanding the “It’s Dead, Jim” reference in the title, it goes back to the original Star Trek.
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It’s still working for me at 23:00 GMT on March 9.
“The key point being to let us point our Google Voice numbers to SIP endpoints in addition to regular PSTN phone numbers. ”
Absolutely, that’s what we want! Free vanity DID that follow you all over the world with the simple install of a SIP client.
It’s still working for me as well, 8:07am ET, March 12th, using sipdroid.
It is working on many accounts as of today 15th March. This isn’t an accident. Google has placed SRV records for UDP SIP service on sip.voice.google.com in the DNS.
Celtic Comms, Thanks for the heads-up that it’s working again! I’m curious, though, where you are seeing the SRV records. When I query DNS using dig, I don’t pull up any SRV records for either sip.voice.google.com or voice.google.com. Could you perhaps include what you are getting for a response as another comment?
Thanks,
Dan
I’m making sip calls via Google Voice on the Nokia N9 via Simon Telephonics gateway.
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TITLE: The Fascinating Interest in Using Google Voice With SIP Addresses
BLOG NAME: Disruptive Telephony
Why are so many people interested in using Google Voice with SIP? Is this a sign that people really want to use SIP-based services for VoIP? Is this all hobbyists or people looking to play around with Google Voice? Or…
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TITLE: Summary: Links to Posts on Calling Google Voice using SIP
BLOG NAME: Disruptive Telephony
Given that I’ll be the guest on today’s VUC call in about an hour discussing this topic, here’s a list of some of the posts involved in the recent saga around Google Voice and SIP. On Saturday, March 5, 2011,…
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TITLE: Google Voice Via SIP – Not Dead Yet… (The Saga Continues)
BLOG NAME: Disruptive Telephony
So maybe calling into Google Voice via SIP isn’t as dead as I thought it was… multiple people have now left comments to my original posts indicating that they could call into their Google Voice number via SIP. And sure…