Hack 62. Give Your Mobile Phone an International Dial-In Number
Use SkypeIn and call forwarding to give your mobile phone one or more international dial-in telephone numbers. Works with: Windows version of Skype. Giving your mobile phone one or more international dial-in numbers has a number of advantages, not the least of which is a reduced call rate for callers who are in the same country as your dial-in number, and the fact that you can have an international presence at a distance. This hack uses three Skype services: SkypeIn, SkypeOut, and call forwarding. By giving a Skype account one or more SkypeIn numbers, you can use Skype call forwarding and SkypeOut to automatically forward to your mobile phone all calls that come in to these dial-in numbers (see Figure 6-4). Figure 6-4. Routing calls to your mobile phone through Skype effectively gives your mobile phone multiple dial-in phone numbersTo give your mobile phone one or more international dial-in numbers, follow these steps:
Figure 6-5. Setting up call forwarding to your mobile phoneNow, any calls to your international SkypeIn number will be forwarded to your mobile file automatically. Unfortunately, all of this is not free, and you must decide for yourself whether the benefits of having an international dial-in number for your mobile phone outweigh the costs (see Table 6-3).
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