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TellFi (YC W11) brings Google Voice-like service to Canada, for free

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Re: TellFi (YC W11) brings Google Voice-like service to Canada, for free

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I like the simplicity. It took me 2 minutes to sign up, get a phone number and leave a voice mail. The audio file (MP3) was delivered instantly to my email. How are you planning to compete with Google Voice when they roll out in Canada?

Same experience here.

One minor bug - HTML entities shown in the email transcriptions: 5 o'clock

Re: TellFi (YC W11) brings Google Voice-like service to Canada, for free

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Anyone know whats taking so long for Google Voice to become available in Canada? How are you planning to compete with free when it is available? I'd love to see conference calls and virtual programmable ivr as a added service.

Calling land lines is soo year 2000. I need a local number and a SIP number that forwards to my phone or takes a voicemail if i don't answer.

Re: TellFi (YC W11) brings Google Voice-like service to Canada, for free

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Anyone know whats taking so long for Google Voice to become available in Canada? How are you planning to compete with free when it is available? I'd love to see conference calls and virtual programmable ivr as a added service. Calling land lines is soo year 2000. I need a local number and a SIP number that forwards to my phone or takes a voicemail if i don't answer.

It's because of the intense competition between Canada's phone providers.

Unfortunately the intense competition is limited to the golf course - the rest of the time they are free to fix charges, limit services and ensure that their friends in government keep out any competition

Re: TellFi (YC W11) brings Google Voice-like service to Canada, for free

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Is this forwarding/voicemail only, or is there actually VOIP service directly to/from the number?

Forwarding, voicemail & extensions (basically multiple forwards depending on what the caller hits)

Still, could be useful. Unfortunately I live in the middle of nowhere with no local numbers on any voip service basically :p

Re: TellFi (YC W11) brings Google Voice-like service to Canada, for free

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post #6

I like the simplicity. It took me 2 minutes to sign up, get a phone number and leave a voice mail. The audio file (MP3) was delivered instantly to my email. How are you planning to compete with Google Voice when they roll out in Canada?

Same experience here. One minor bug - HTML entities shown in the email transcriptions: 5 o'clock

Thanks for the note, will get that fixed! I wish I knew how to speak in HTML entities when I left voicemails...

Re: TellFi (YC W11) brings Google Voice-like service to Canada, for free

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post #19

Awesome - I got a 403 area code, finally! The front page should make it more clear that there is an extended free trial. .

404 would be cool Page not found 5555 ;p

Well, they have 403-888-xxxx numbers, which I thought was pretty cool but I didn't get one because I didn't want to confuse people b
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