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I would do that, but my doctors office seems to have at least 100 phone lines, and the number that shows up on the caller is basically random after the first 4 digits.


Quite often you'll find that the doctors office is part of a larger system for an entire medical center. Your call can get routed out any open physical line. These days fully VOIP systems will mask the number as the primary, but some systems still have physical connectivity to the phone companny.


If you use Google Fi, you just view the voice transcript and then call back.


Oh I wish. I’m in Optimum (Former Suddenlink) territory.

It’s only in the past year I was able to upgrade from 300mbps to gigabit, and it ain’t fiber. Also obvious that the local techs have no clue what they’re doing since the link goes down several times a night briefly, always at exactly 15 minutes after the hour. It’s obvious there’s a switch or something that they’re just rebooting every night.


Google Fi != Google Fiber

One is a cell phone plan, one is an ISP.


Oh. Shrug. I hate android so I don’t really follow that ecosystem


I have it on iPhone and it works very well.


Yeah, I have it on an iphone even though I'd prefer not to, but I haven't found a competitor worth switching to.


How does that work? I thought there was no way to override the default dialer? Or is it just an app running over data?


Google Fi is an MVNO. They give you a sim, service is provided via T-Mobile mostly. (It used to have Android required special roaming on Sprint, but T-Mobile absorbed Sprint, so that's moot)


Ahh.c that explains it. I’ve been on sprint forever, on a long grandfathered unlimited plan. I was only actually swapped to a T-Mobile sim about 6 months ago.




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