Guys be careful when you choose your number. What you want is a local number so you can use it with your home phone without using internt. Without using the internet you have to dial that number and you do not want it to be long distant or you save nothing.
If you can not get a local number (like me) then you have to use the internet to make the free connection.
Even if you use your own number, there is still a connection number to dial.
I have a shortcut on my home page to the dialing web page,I enter the number I want to call, press call. Then both my phone and who I want's phone rings. I then pick up my home phone and talk.
I do not need a long distant plan on my house phone now, just local for incoming calls ffor the family. This will save me $40 a month. Just wish I could have got a local google number.
Later if a local number comes available, I will gladly pay the $10 fee to change my number.
The google number that also rings my house phone will be given to people who might sell it to marketers or people I may not want to talk to in the future because I can screen or block the google calls.
I have plans to get the max out of my GV.