[jdeibele]

https://support.google.com/voice/answer/1065667?hl=en#zippy=...

I've paid the $20 Google charges to make a number "permanent" once for myself and a couple of times for organizations.

For myself, it's a highly secure phone number. I still only use a phone number when I absolutely have to, like with Twitter, preferring to use a hardware key or Authy.

For organizations, it's like an answering machine. My kids' soccer club had a cell phone that was supposed to be answered by the VP when parents or coaches had messages. It was much easier to port the number into Google Voice, put it into Do Not Disturb mode permanently, and have the transcriptions forwarded to the VP on the extremely rare occasions that there were any.