Google Voice is an interesting tool for use in the modern phone age. Today people move around the country, have multiple phones, are near different phones at different times, or would like to have very specific call filtering and screening capabilities. Google Voice (GV) certainly offers these features and more. So what's the problem? Today I am going to talk about the issues some people have with voicemail forwarding from their actual cell phone number. While obviously if you are committing to GV you should spread the news to everyone that you have a new phone number. However, that may be a big pain or may not be desired. You may only have a cell phone, as in my case. I use google voice for two reasons only - voicemail transcription and to have a local number for business (it suspicious for a local merchant to have a phone number in a state 500 miles away). So when people locally call my new GV number, I don't really have a problem. However, when you forward your voicemail from your real cell phone you run into some potential problems. Unless you send everyone on GV directly to voice mail ["Do Not Disturb" Mode] your caller can get lost in a loop or have to wait through a very large quantity of rings. If you have no idea what I am talking about, read here and here.