Mar 13, 2025
Can I use my Google Voice phone number on my personal land line?
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You can receive calls to your Google Voice number forwarded to your landline. To place calls, you can either use the web interface, use the mobile app, or call your Google Voice number and place the call from the interactive menu.
I hope this answers your question!
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Hi User 18080631535269201366, welcome to the Google Voice community forum!
Although not required, it would be helpful to change your username here in this forum. It's easy to do by tapping on your username to bring up your profile. You can then tap on the pencil 🖋 icon to the right, and modify the username. This makes it easier to interact with you directly, especially when multiple "User <random numbers>" start posting. Thanks!
You can receive calls to your Google Voice number forwarded to your landline. To place calls, you can either use the web interface, use the mobile app, or call your Google Voice number and place the call from the interactive menu.
I hope this answers your question!
Zanzibar correctly suggests "To place calls, you can...call your Google Voice number and place the call from the
interactive menu."
Many Google Voice users aren't aware how to do that, and aren't aware that it can be done from any telephone (even if not linked to your own Google Voice account). The instructions may at first seem complicated, but they are easy if you review them, first.
Try making a call the following way:
1. Dial your own Google number from a linked phone (or actually, from any phone, see 2. below)
✦ interrupt your voicemail greeting (if necessary press the asterisk key *)
✦ respond to prompts (PIN, and any others)
✦ press [ 2 ] to place a call, enter a ten digit phone number, followed by the pound key #
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2. How to use any telephone, including dumb POTS telephones, to make
outgoing Google Voice calls without using your computer and without
using smart phone apps.
✦ dial your Google number using any US telephone. You can use any unlinked landline telephone.
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interrupt your Google voicemail greeting by pressing the asterisk key [
* ] during the greeting message (IMPORTANT: before the🗦BEEP🗧signaling voicemail recording has started)
✦ when challenged, enter your Google Voice voicemail PIN (if necessary, first create your PIN)
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if challenged, enter the telephone number of one of your Google Voice
linked telephones, your already linked telephone, then, when you reach
the Google Voice audio menu, press [ 2 ] to make a Google Voice
outgoing call. Follow the prompts to enter a number (use International
dialing format as appropriate), followed by the [ # ] key.
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listen for "this is a free call" (most US and Canada calls are free using Google Voice)
Last edited Mar 14, 2025