Avoid Roaming Charges with a Virtual Phone Number

Do you travel abroad often, or rather, do you often travel outside the coverage of your telephone services provider? Then you have definitely been slapped with roaming charges. Well, unless you are smart enough to have realized that roaming charges can be avoided through a virtual telephone number.

So, what are roaming charges?
Each telephone services provider covers a limited area and so using your mobile phone outside that area causes additional charges which are referred to as roaming charges. For example, if you live in France and you would like to travel to Germany you can still use your mobile phone, but it is quite expensive due to roaming charges. The exact amount that one is charged as roaming fees differs from one service provider to the other. Even worse, you can incur long distance costs when using your mobile phone when away from home. The solution? To get a virtual phone number.

To avoid roaming charges with a virtual telephone number this is what technically happens:

1. You sign up with the many companies that offer virtual telephone services before leaving your home country. In this case you should get a phone number that is local to your home country.
2. Then configure your calls to be forwarded to the virtual telephone number.
3. On getting to your destination, you should buy a new SIM card that is local to the country you are in. 
4. You should then log in to your virtual telephone number management system and then indicate the new telephone number as the number to which incoming calls should be forwarded to. 

And you can enjoy a roaming-free visit to any country in the world! Your business associates, family, friends, and customers will also greatly thank you for you decision to get a virtual phone number as apart from the ability to keep in touch with you, they will not pay international calling fees as they will be making calls to a number that is local to them.

So, now you are in the know. Never again pay the costly roaming charges as there are less expensive solutions to roaming rates.