Does Cingular support virtual numbers?

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Dusty - 26 Oct 2005 16:05 GMT

I've been crawling all over the Cingular website, but can't seem to locate
any info about them being able to generate virtual numbers. Does anybody
reading here know otherwise?

If not, anybody have any recommendations for such a service?

TIA,
DustyB
San Jose

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JohnF - 30 Oct 2005 15:47 GMT

What's a "virtual number"?

> I've been crawling all over the Cingular website, but can't seem to locate
> any info about them being able to generate virtual numbers. Does anybody
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> DustyB
> San Jose

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Isaiah Beard - 30 Oct 2005 16:14 GMT

> I've been crawling all over the Cingular website, but can't seem to locate
> any info about them being able to generate virtual numbers. Does anybody
> reading here know otherwise?

I don't think any of them do, I'm afraid.

> If not, anybody have any recommendations for such a service?

There's two options. One is RingCentral (www.ringcentral.com) which
will offer a virtual number that rings to any other US number for $9.99
a month with an alloted number of minutes. Depending on the amount of
volume you get through the number, this might work out.

A cheaper option though is to use Skype, via their SkypeIn service. A
US number, just about any area code is EU30.00 for a year, or EU10.00
for three months. You'd then have to buy SkypeOut minutes in $10 chunks
(rate is 2.1 cents per minute). then just log in to Skype and set it to
forward to any number you'd like.

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Jud Hardcastle - 30 Oct 2005 16:38 GMT

> There's two options. One is RingCentral (www.ringcentral.com) which
> will offer a virtual number that rings to any other US number for $9.99
> a month with an alloted number of minutes. Depending on the amount of
> volume you get through the number, this might work out.

Assuming this is even what he's referring to...

A couple more:
www.accessline.com - similar but charges a flat rate for local numbers
(no per-minute charges)
www.ureach.com

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