Something's Up With Gizmo and Google Voice

Very quietly, Gizmo5 users in the USA have lost their USA dial in numbers. Without warning and no notice that my USA numbers would not be renewed I have lost my USA numbers assigned to two different Gizmo accounts. That of course leads me to suspect something is up. So here are a few thoughts:

1. The fact that GoogleVoice and Gizmo peer means that you can use your GoogleVoice number in the USA to receive calls and have them terminate on your Gizmo softclient.

2. Likely the integration is moving forward and you'll see the offer of a GoogleVoice softclient where the original Gizmo client goes through a face lift and gets some upgrades.

3.The fact that Gizmo In numbers are still available outside the USA likely means they can become GoogleVoice International numbers and that in the countries where those numbers remain will be some of the first to offer GoogleVoice International service.

4. Those numbers will allow you to then identify other numbers in that country to terminate calls to, so someone like me who travels often to France and the UK will be able to have GV terminate calls that originate in the USA in those countries as if they were originated in those countries.

What I believe is happening is that the USA numbers are simply expiring and not being renewed, but the lack of any email correspondence or any details on the web site means that in the absence of any information, that we'll all speculate what's up.

For die hard users of Gizmo5 there is a way around all this. Simply buy a DID from one of the better suppliers, like CallCentric, and then simply do a SIP forward of the DID number and you're all set.