Hello! Quick question, is there a way to get a phone number that people can easily use to call me from abroad from regular phones? Right now I use skype to call places like hospitals, banks, whatever, but is there a way I can get ahold of a phone number they can use to call me that won’t cost an arm and a leg?
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Get a Skype inbound number, it’s USD$3.99 per month
I use Google Voice for this — I ported my old US phone number into Google Voice before I came to Japan (alternatively, you can get a new US phone number from Google Voice for free), and now I can make and receive calls and texts through the Google Voice website on my PC, as well as send and receive texts through the Google Voice app on my phone all for free (you used to be able to use the iPhone app for calls as well, but that seems to have stopped working recently if you don’t have an active US phone number linked to your account.)
I set all of this up while I was still in the US; I haven’t tried setting it up from Japan, but it might work if you have a US-based VPN and a friend in the US who can receive a confirmation text message for you.
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