Apr 27, 2010
Phone.com Cuts Roaming Charges
Good news for Phone.com customers this month: the virtual phone system provider is helping travelers slash roaming charges. That’s right, one of the leading virtual PBX companies is making it possible for you to forever do away with the fees associated with roaming by using your virtual number and call forwarding.
The Phone.com best practice works this way:
- Get a Phone.com virtual office account.
- Start giving people your Phone.com phone number for everything, rather than your business line, your home line or your cell phone line. This will let you tap into Phone.com’s call handling features that let you decide when you will take calls, where they will be forwarded and so on.
- Set your call handling rules. You can choose to have your calls forwarded to your desk during business hours, and send them to your mobile phone during lunch hours or after hours with a few clicks of your mouse. Or, you can have all your calls go directly to voicemail.
The Overseas Advantage
With Phone.com, you are even covered when you travel overseas. You just have to get a global number, which costs about $5 a month. This way you can dial that number and you’ll be able to reach any U.S. phone you want to forward a number to.
By having a global number, you can also let your clients in, say, England call you on that international line and have it forward directly to your phone. Your client will be charged for a local call and your flat monthly fee minute plan covers it. That means no international long distance rates.
Of course, you can cut roaming charges with other virtual phone systems as well. Phone.com has gotten out of the gate with this messaging to bring awareness to the roaming masses. But if you are using RingCentral, my1Voice or some other virtual phone system, it’s likely that you can do the same set up. Check with your operator for more details.
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