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A virtual number, also known as direct inward dialing ( DID) or access numbers, is a telephone number without a directly associated telephone line. Usually, these numbers are programmed to forward incoming calls to one of the pre-set telephone numbers, chosen by the client: fixed, mobile or VoIP.
Dingtone operates on a freeware model, offering users a choice between a free number and a paid number. The service provides phone numbers registered in various countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Poland.
As of 2020, eVoice provides toll-free and local phone numbers to subscribers in the United States and Canada. [3] The phone number is chosen by the user from available numbers in selected area codes.
“Follow Me” refers to the ability to receive calls at any number of designated phones, whether ringing all at once, or in sequence. In some systems, the user is assigned a virtual phone number. When that number is dialed, the system routes the call through a user-defined list of numbers.
Some services offer international call forwarding by allocating for the customer a local virtual phone number which is forwarded to any other international destination. The number was permanently forwarded and had no associated telephone line.
A long number (e.g. +44 7624 800555 in international notation or 07624 800555 in UK national notation), also known as a virtual mobile number (VMN), dedicated phone number MSISDN or long code, is a reception mechanism used by businesses to receive SMS messages and voice calls.
A telephone keypad is a keypad installed on a push-button telephone or similar telecommunication device for dialing a telephone number. It was standardized when the dual-tone multi-frequency signaling (DTMF) system was developed in the Bell System in the United States in the 1960s that replaced rotary dialing originally developed in ...
In Peru, a cell-phone number starts with a 9. +51 9XX XXX XXX (9-digit mobile number) The mobile virtual area eliminates the use of area code for mobile numbers.
Free to call from landline, and was up to 40p per minute from mobile, until July 2015 when calls to 080 numbers from mobiles became free. Calls to certain charity and similar services were always free from most mobiles.
There are also free-phone numbers (starting with 0800 or 0508) that are given in the format 0800-AAA-AAA. It is not uncommon for the 0800 and 0508 to be enclosed in brackets, although this is not strictly correct as the brackets denote optional parts of the number, and the 0800 and 0508 is required.