Do you have a cell phone and no home phone?
Do you have a home phone that you are paying too much for?

You can now have a home phone that has the same phone number as your cell phone. You can make and receive unlimited calls to US/Canada and save your minutes when talking on your home phone. Here is what you should do:

1. Call your cell phone provider and tell them that you want to port your phone number to Google but you don't want to terminate your cell phone service. You want them to give you another phone number after you port your number to Google. Once they approve (which they will), ask them to give you the case number (just in case).


2. Login to your Google voice account and click "settings". Then on the "Phones" tab click on "change/port".


3. Follow the prompt and port your cell phone number to Google.


4. Once done, call your cell phone provider and give them the case number you wrote down. They should give you a new phone number on your old plan.


5. Forward your Google Voice number to your new cell phone number.

So far, you have accomplished porting your cell phone number to Google Voice. Your contacts can still call you on this number and everything is the same as before. Now, here is how you a get a home-phone:

6. goto http://teltub.com/ghome and register. Follow the prompts and it configures your phone line for you.


7. gHome gives you a VoIP home phone based on your Google Voice. It uses your Google Voice account to make and receive calls and you do not loose any Google Voice functionality. You only need to have a high speed internet at home (no computer is needed).

Now when you receive a phone call, your cell phone and your home phone will ring simultaneously. You can answer the call through either one. If you pick up your home phone, you will be saving your cell phone minutes. Also, you can make calls using your home phone just like a normal phone (well, it is a normal phone). The person you are calling will see that you are calling from your Google Voice phone number (which used to be your cell phone number). You can call anywhere in the US or Canada for free.

gHome only costs $5 per month for a complete home phone (no 9-1-1 yet). Make and receive unlimited calls to US/Canada, have one phone number only and save!

It’s crazy here in TELTUB. We are working non-stop to keep up with emails, support tickets, and new developments (how do you like having phone extensions for your business? More on this later!)

I thank all of you (on behalf of everybody here in TELTUB) for your messages, feedbacks and suggestions.

I noticed this morning that Google has opened Local Number Portability (LNP) for a limited number of Google Voice users (unfortunately not for any of us here). This is great news. We have been asked many times to support LNP. While this will be supported in TELTUB in near future, Google Voice LNP is extremely useful for gHome users.

If/when Google supports this feature users can port-in their home-phone numbers (from any provider in the US) to Google. Then subscribe to gHome and viola. They will have a full-featured home-phone based on Google Voice for only $5 per month. This plan is really not beatable for a home-phone.

Many have been already using their Google Voice phone number, as their main number but Google’s LNP support will make this even more exciting. Why would anyone not want gHome? (well, if they need a home-phone)

First things first: Happy new year.

During the holidays, and before that, we have been working hard to improve TELTUB. We have fixed a number of bugs, addressed some stability and reliability issues and added many features including:

• You can now attach links, pictures and documents to your calls. This is useful when you are talking about your trip to your friend or when you are on a business call and want to share a presentation. We will later add the ability to share these attachments in realtime to enable you to have media-rich calls with your loved ones.
  
  
• It is now possible to comment on active and past calls. This is more like chatting in realtime. From now on, you can login to TELTUB and comment on a particular call while in progress or after it's ended. Comments too will be shared with other parties.
  
  
• We made the registration process easy and extremely painless. You can use your Facebook account to register and sign-in to TELTUB. It cannot get easier than this.
  
  
• GoVo application is also significantly improved. You no longer have to register and verify your phone number with Google Voice. It configures Google Voice to work with GoVo automatically.
  
  
• We now provide Analog Terminal Adapters (ATA) for users who subscribe to gHome and GoSIP solutions. Users can still bring their own device but we now allow anyone to use the service by sending them a pre-configured plug and play VoIP adapter.
  
  
• SIPTUB, TELTUB's SIP server application, that provides VoIP functionalities now provides useful realtime status information that can be used to troubleshoot most of the probable issues.

Some users may have experienced some issues when using some of TELTUB phone numbers. This is mostly due to our third party phone number providers but we added many more stable phone numbers in various area codes to address this issue.
We have had some price adjustments. Browse the application and solution directory and view application and solution profiles for more details.

TELTUB is now open to public for a limited time. You no longer need an invitation to become a TELTUB user. We also give $5 credit to new users to try our services. Try Google Voice for home free for one month and after that only $5 per month. This is the only complete home phone solution that is new and exciting and gives you any feature that you can dream of plus unlimited calls to US and Canada for this price.