Google’s Project Fi cancels your Google Voice account, at least until you cancel Project Fi

When Google announced Project Fi, there were some concerns over its compatibility with Google Voice. It was clarified that if you ported your GV number over to Fi, you’d keep all of your texts, call logs, and other Voice settings, but you were going to lose tons of functionality that many users were probably familiar with, especially when it came to Google Talk and Google Voice apps.

So, this puts users in a tough situation. Signing up for Project Fi effectively kills your Google Voice account, so you’d end up with a new phone number (or your old Voice number) with none of the functionality Voice had. You could argue that Google was trying to replace parts of that with their carrier service, but it’s not all there. If you really wanted to keep the number and your functionality, you’d have to port the number out to another carrier or another Gmail account, neither of which are perfect solutions.

On the bright side, though, it turns out that if you cancel your Fi account, you’ll get your Google Voice account back to how it was before you changed anything. So at least if you jump on board Google’s pseudo-network and have some buyer’s remorse, there’s an easy way to jump back out.

Still, you’d think Google would have sorted this stuff out. Maybe in the next few years.

source: Android Police

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