Phone Service Kills Roaming Charges With Virtual Local Numbers

 

You really ought to save your international friends m hotshoty with a local anesthetic number, or at least impress people with a number in Sweden. You can do that with VIR2SIM.

Phone service VIR2SIM is a bit deal Google Voice solely instead of one virtual resound number, you can have as some(prenominal) as 20 virtual local phone poesy from throughout Europe, Russia, Canada, Australia and Israel. That’s helpful when you have friends in capital of the United Kingdom who can’t be bothered paying unreasonable prices to call you in the United states. They can call your VIR2SIM capital of the United Kingdom number without incurring stupid long-distance fees.

When you place a call with the app, after dialing the number, the app hangs up on you then calls you plunk for on your regular line. The recipient sees your VIR2SIM local number. So it seems like you’re calling from the same region. If you do travel abroad and change your SIM, you can quickly reroute all of your virtual amount to your new SIM within the app.

These local numbers can be helpful for anyone that does business or has friends abroad or travels but doesn’t want to incur roaming fees. But, all of this virtual phone calling will cost you. A call to the U.K. from the U.S. is 7 cents a minute, while a call to Australia will gear up you back 12 cents a minute. All incoming calls to the U.S. are 4 cents a minute. All of these are in profit to your usual phone call minutes, but if your grandmother lives in France and she’s too cheap to call you, VIR2SIM is a abundant way to give her 24-hour access to you without going through her baguet money.

VIR2SIM is available now for iOS and Android.

Materials taken from WIRED