Signing Up for a Free US or UK Number
If you’d rather not own a mobile phone, you can at least get your WiFi-enabled laptop or PDA its own telephone number so you can receive calls from anywhere as long as you have an Internet connection. It basically involves signing up for a free redirection service that routes calls made to an ordinary telephone number to your VoIP client. Some details at the J Spot.
- Sign up for an account with FWD.
- Download and install an FWD-compatible client.
- Sign up for a free DID number from IPKall (US) and/or CallUK.
The catch is, you have to be online (and have to have a headset or a laptop with a mic ready) to receive calls. However, you can activate the free FWD voicemail to pick up when a call is unanswered or when you are offline. Messages will then be sent to your email as .MP3 files.
If you’re running an offshore business that caters to US or UK clients, this might come in handy. You can even route these calls to your office PABX so you can receive calls as if you had your own US number.
You can probably even get free (or at least cheap) incoming phone calls this way, if your mobile phone supports internal VoIP clients connected either via GPRS, 3G or WiFi.
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