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Virtual phone number
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A Virtual Phone Number or Virtual Number, is a telephone number without an associated phone line. Usually these numbers are programmed to be forwarded to either a Voice over IP service, or to a different phone line, fixed or mobile.
Virtual Numbers are sometimes used in conjunction with mail forwarding services to create a Virtual Office in a remote place. For instance, a company may purchase a virtual phone number with area code 212, together with a mail forwarding service in New York, to give the impression that the company is located in New York, when in fact it may be located in an entirely different country.
Virtual Numbers are especially appealing to technology companies (for technical support), exporters (to give the impression that the company is local) and service companies such as call centers.
Virtual numbers are available on most American area codes, as well as most European countries and some Latin American and Asian countries as well. The largest provider or Latin American virtual numbers is a company called DigiLinea [1], which provides Latin American DID's to the majority of large companies.
Some examples of virtual number providers are Skype (SkypeIn service), Vonage (forwards virtual numbers to a VoIP device) and Voxbone (40+ countries covered) .