To have a reachable number somewhere, I'm looking into either Twilio or Google Voice. Problem with Google Voice is that I believe I need a phone associated with the number (and I already use as GV number for my primary phone number).
What are others using? Ideally I'd like to just have a nice answering system with a place people can call for support and as a means to look more legitimate.
Thanks.
I use sipgate.de for access to the public phone system. I connect to them via asterisk which connects to some other PBXes and my devices. Whenever somebody calls my german line (or my extension at an other PBX), the call ends up in my asterisk. I try to ring my mobile first. If this is unsuccessful, I tell the caller via recording that I will try some other devices. If that fails, the caller can leave a voice mail and I get a notification via email. (xmpp soon..) My setup is still missing caller-id filtering fun, but it was easy to build and runs stable since a few month. If you have a server somewhere, perhaps a simple asterisk with a sip provider is all you need. I can't wait until I find a usable sip client that supports zrtp on my android. I have high hopes for jitsi. (https://jitsi.org/)