Skype Phone Number - Your Local Phone Number

A Skype phone number or Online number is one the most innovative products offered by Skype.

An Online number or Skypeln is a regular phone number. It's a number that you can put on a business card, or on your letterhead so that callers can reach you using their regular phones and cellphones. They don't even need a Skype account to call you on your Online number.

Uses:

1. Staying in contact with friends, family and overseas customers. By providing them with a local Skype number, they can always reach you for the cost of a local call.

2. Receiving phone calls from people who do not use Skype.

3. Servicing overseas customers by providing them with an inexpensive local contact number. They can contact you for the cost of a local phone call, no matter where in the world you are.

For small businesses with customers in several countries the solution is to purchase an Online number for each country. Online numbers are available in over twenty countries. To avoid long distance charges your friends, colleagues and customers just call your local Skype telephone number from their regular phone.

Call Forwarding

Caller Identification

Once you have an Online number, outbound calls can be setup to display the number. It allows people to accept your calls in the knowledge of who is calling.

Summary

Online numbers are the next best thing to everyone having Skype, so get an Online number for the people who haven't downloaded Skype.