Hi @dwalltech,

Extend Home is a new feature, unlike anything, anyone else, even Google Voice is doing.

Google Voice has some great aspects - I use it, too! I love being able to change what phone it forwards to, and send text messages from my Google Voice account and see the replies on my phone (and even in my E-mail!) I’ve been a big fan of Google Voice for a long time.

Extend Home is different. It’s not meant to be a separate phone number (like Google Voice) that you then forward everywhere. Instead, it uses the same Republic Wireless cell phone number people already know you by, and rings an otherwise unassociated handset. It doesn’t point calls to subscribed phone line like Google Voice does. You take a phone that has absolutely no service whatsoever, hook it to the Extend Home adapter that is associated with your cell phone, and you have working phone with no new monthly service fee.

It’s really a bit hard to understand if you’ve never tried it, and I can see why that leads you think along the lines of something you’re already very familiar with - like Google Voice - and think they are similar.

I think the very best way for you to understand how it is different and how those differences matter would be for you to try it yourself. So, I wanted to see if you’d like to enter into a little deal with me.

I’d like to give you a coupon that would allow you to order an Extend Home adapter at no cost. That’s my end of the deal. Your end of the deal would be to set it up, try it out, and then come back to our Community and explain it to others. Write an unbiased review in our #reviews section stating that you were sent an Extend Home adapter to evaluate, and then make it very clear to our members what Extend home is and what it does, and yes, even how it is different from Google Voice. You’ll need a modern, push-button phone that’s not currently being used on a landline, and an available port on your router.

I think as an engineer with so much experience in related technology fields, you’d be able to explain it to our members in a way that they could easily understand, and help us avoid exactly the kind of confusion and heated discussion that has evolved here.

Please let me know if this is something you’d like to do. We’ll be eager to read your review!