Hi guys,

What companies offer Phone numbers for masking?

Lets say you want to have 1 single number that directs the call to your cell but you want to be able to change the number where you will be available at any time?

Are there any affordable, free or cheap services that will give you a phone number and let you do this?

Thanks

If you're in the United Kingdom, BT Ring Central does offer what you're looking for.

I believe the 0844 number is generally used for roaming.

http://www.ringcentral.bt.com/

Vonage (http://vonage.com) can do this as well.

kall8 does this starting at $2/mo plus per minute charge.

We use vonage.. Works great.

GotVMail.com is a close competitor of Ringcentral. Rich feature too

kall8 does this starting at $2/mo plus per minute charge.

I second Kall8, they're very well priced and added a # of features over the years. Plenty of companies now-a-days to choose from thats for sure.

Kall8 works very well for us as well.

Kall8 works very well for us as well.

Are they available for Indians too ?

We use Ringcentral, the US version. It works great for us so far.

We use GrandCentral.com not sure if it will work for you, but works great for us.

Sean

Are they available for Indians too ?

Kall8 works internationally.

We use GrandCentral.com not sure if it will work for you, but works great for us.

SeanSean - do you have an invite available? I would love to try this out..

They've blocked invites for a while. They're not accepting any new users and it's been like that since before april.

What about SkypeIn? Probably ever so suitable for a small company, and you can have a number in different countries.

We use GrandCentral.com not sure if it will work for you, but works great for us.

SeanWhat they said :D

We use TollFreeForwarding (www.tollfreeforwarding.com) and they are fantastic and have an amazing control panel.

Sean - do you have an invite available? I would love to try this out..

powerMonster-Scott is correct they don't give out invites right now sorry.


Sean

Try http://www.telcan.net/ Work very well. But do not use it for "hiding" your real number, instead use it as virtual PBX with call forwarding, voice mail and intellectual answering machine.

Another vote for GrandCentral... However, from what I hear they won't have invites opened again until next Spring.

You can do this with Callcentric (http://callcentric.com). You can even setup 'call treatments' via their website. This could be used, for example, to redirect calls differently out-of-hours.

Obviously, if you want to do something more complicated you could hook the number up to your own Asterisk server.

SkypeIn is excellent.

I use skype in with virtual pbx, plus with the business control panel, you can assign numbers to your employees. If you fire them, the number is still yours to reassign to someone new.

DON'T USE KALL8. It is the most unreliable service on the planet. Vonage is okay for home phone service, but they're not too swift (to say the least) when it comes to businesses. I certainly wouldn't recommend them. RingCentral.com and GotVmail.com are the best two choices. If you actually need a voip phone line, you may want to consider a hosted ip pbx from Aptela, Vocalocity, or Jive communications (getjive.com - I currently use them and am very happy).

PS A tip - don't try to host your own asterisk box. You'll be sorry.....

Another vote for GrandCentral... However, from what I hear they won't have invites opened again until next Spring.


I think they are planning on dumping the GrandCentral project. Heard that Google is losing to much money off it. You might want to check out RingCentral or Virtual PBX for a phone service. Live Chat also works, if you want to cut cost. :)

All the best,

SkypeIn is excellent.

I use skype in with virtual pbx, plus with the business control panel, you can assign numbers to your employees. If you fire them, the number is still yours to reassign to someone new.

My reception when using skype isn't that good most of the time.

I would suggest: Vitelity
http://vitelity.net/index.php?p=retailserv

You can get their Unlimited Inbound DIDs for $7.95/month - which will allow you up to 2 concurrent calls at a time. (If you are forwarding to a cell phone it won't handle more than that anyway.)

If you aren't forwarding to a cell phone, you can use their per minute pricing, and route it where you want.

i suggest vonage as its cheap and works great

PS A tip - don't try to host your own asterisk box. You'll be sorry.....

Mind sharing your experience?

Freedom Voice is another provider. A bit more expensive but well worth. In the time I worked with them (having their services), we added another toll free number and got a local fax number. The fax services were much better than efax - they delivered the fax to you in a PDF or TIF file.

They will also record your conversations as well - yes, they do tell you that you are being recorded. That helped me out a couple of times when I used them.

Verizon calls it a "foreign listing" and it gets you in 411 which can be good business practice. The price, last time I checked, was less than $2 a month.

AT&T also offers something similar, calls it "remote call forwarding".

Phone.com is another provider similar to Gotvmail and Ringcentral.