Phone Forwarding Service

Discussion in 'Services' started by willdecided, Oct 17, 2008.

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    What I need to do is setup multiple phone numbers that are forwarded to my cell phone. Does anyone know of any reliable service that offers this. Free or Paid is fine.

    Thanks.
     
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  2. Nigel Lew

    Nigel Lew Notable Member

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    I use Vonage if that helps. I spend about 40 monthly I get two phone numbers and an 800 number and a fax line. I can also take my router anywhere in the world that has high speed internet and get my phone calls that way.

    And yes, you can forward them. Vonage rocks on my end. The 800 number is 5 a month for unlimited calls. The folks love it ;)

    If you need alot of phone numbers and know some linux you definitely want to check out trixbox.(requires a sip connection) http://www.trixbox.org/ which uses this http://www.asterisk.org/

    actually that stuff is more like an open source, full blown, pbx system for a medium to large size office.

    Your other option is virtual phone numbers such as this service http://www.innoport.com/virtual_phone_number.asp
    hope that helps,
    Nigel
     
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    stmiki Peon

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    You can use Skype do this out.

    Here is what you can do. You can buy both SkypeIn and SkypeOut. SkypeIn will give you your own phone number that anyone can call and it will ring on your Skype Account. Now with SkypeOut, you can format it so you have unlimited minutes to call anyone in the US & Canada and then just set your Skype account to forward incoming calls to your cell phone.

    A combo of SkypeIn + SkypeOut is about $14/month per account

    So for about $45/m you can get 3 different numbers (wherever in the world mind you, regarding the area code and country code) and have it forward to your cell phone!
     
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    I have some security issues with skype and them tracking stuff(google it) but the above poster is actually accurate and that is a quick way to address this issue. Nicely done stmiki! That is a fairly sound solution if the scenario doesn't require much vetting...

    Nigel
     
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