Online number cost for friends in US

I just set up an online number. I am stationed in the Middle East and the number I set-up is a US number. When someone calls me do they get charged or does my online number get charged? If they get charged, is it at local charge or is it International charges? If I get charged, am I alloted a certain amount of calls before being charged? Or am I charged for every call in? Can people call me from another Skype account and leave a message at no cost? If I do not want this onilne number, can I get reimbursed or am I out $30? Thanks
SK1 Blume

jdbcg wrote:
When someone calls me do they get charged.
Hello,
Details here:
With an Online #, people can call you from a landline or cellphone and you can pick up the call in Skype. It’s perfect if you have friends, family or business colleagues who don’t use Skype. Anyone can dial your Online # from any landline or cellphone and your Skype rings and you pick up the call.
It’s a great thing to have if you plan to travel or move abroad, but want an affordable way to keep in contact with people back home. You can choose where you want your Online # to be local to when you set it up.
Say you live in the United States, and you plan to travel around Australia for the summer, but you want an affordable way to keep in contact with friends and family back home. All you have to do is get an US Online # and your friends and family there can call you on that number at local rates. You pay nothing to answer the call.
If you don't want your Online # you can request a refund by filing with Customer Support.
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How much costs an Skype online number ??

There is no information about the costs of the online number !!
I followed all the buy-a-number-process until Skype/Microsoft asks me about my account without to give me opportunity to see how much the online-number costs !!!!!
Please tell/write us how much
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So you actually work for this company with the WORST business website I have ever seen. I've spent 45 minutes on your stupid site trying to figure out how to extend my online number because your email told me I had to extend my number or it would expire.
Here your saying that it will automatically extend. What if I don't want to automatically extend? What if I wanted to cancel? What if I actually wanted support on this horrible service. I mean the phone actually works but your site is absolutely the WORST. You can't do anything you want to do logically.
I'm a web designer. If I designed junk like your site, I'd be fired and deservedly so.
45 minutes looking for something that doesn't exist. Thanks you can extend my number FOR FREE NOW for wasting my time.
Oh and thx for allowing us to actually communicate with you in such an "effective" manner. "What kind of support does this PROFESSIONAL site give?" Message boards!
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Costs of calling an online number ?

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I am looking to get an online number - I do not have a landline and my friend does not have a very useful contract on the their mobile , lol. We are both in the UK.
If they call my online number from their landline, will the call be treated as if they were dialing any other UK number i.e. will it still fall in under their landline call packages ?
Hope that makes sense..... Thanks and Happy New Year !!

Yes, calling an online number costs exactly as calling any other number in the same area code.

Need an online number for local area code 606 for ...

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mjm10036 wrote:
I wanted to get an Online Number for New York City and got as far as
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at
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But couldn't figure out what to chose among 13 choices listed as New York City Zones 3 through 15. Is there a difference in the Zones? I notice they all have the same area code - 347.
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I have not found a good concise online reference to those calling zone in the past. I have found some rather cryptic material that shows which prefixes in each of the New York City area codes are in each of those zones. The zones are defined by lists of prefixes within each of those area codes, and those lists can be substantial with the growth in mobile phones over the years.
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I am an American graduate student who will be living in Canada for a year. I plan on purchasing a Canadian cell phone plan but would still like to be able to call and be called easily by my family and friends in the states. I was considering purchasing both a skype-to-go plan to call people in the US and getting an online number so that people in the US could call me for free (as well as an unlimited us/Canada plan). Would this work, as long as I get a mobile plan with a lot of minutes, or would there be additional/roaming fees? I know that Skype-to-Skype would also be possible but, I'm not sure that I'll have a data plan.
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What you outline is good, stuff you can use Skype for. There is a sequence you would want to follow, which will help you save a little $$$ in the process.
First thing you should probably do is get your Unlimited USA & Canada subscription. This covers calling to landlines and mobile phones in both countries at US$ 2.99/month. If purchased on a yearly basis, you get a 15% discount, knocking the price down to just over US$ 30/year. Once you have this, you will be able to make calls from Skype to landline and mobile phones in both countries, and use this to cover the calls forwarded from Skype to your Canadian number.
Once you have the subscription, purchase the US Online Number. Ideally, you should get it in the same city as the people who would call you most, trying to make the call for them a free local call. Skype does not have Online Numbers in all 50 US states and not in all US area codes, so take a look at what's there. Even if you can't get a number in the same city as your friends and family, at least it would be a domestic long-distance call instead of making them call a Canadian number at international rates from the USA. With the subscription, you can get a 50% discount on the price of the Online Number. For a year, that makes the Online Number US$ 30. Not a bad deal. You would not be charged by Skype to receive calls on the Online Number. With the subscription as outlined above, you can forward calls to any number covered by your subscription (in Canada or the USA) for no additional charges from Skype.
Then get the Skype To Go number. You may be able to get the number so it is a local call for you wherever you are going to be in Canada. Be very careful about the city and area code/prefix combination for the Skype To Go number, as this could be a long-distance call for you. Using the mobile phone, those calls may be covered by your mobile plan. Not all calls to all area codes for a particular Canadian city may be considered as free local calls. You can then set up Skype To Go to remember your Canadian number, so you don't have to enter a PIN code every time you call the Skype To Go number to make calls. These calls would either be covered by your subscription (free calling to US and Canadian numbers), or require Skype Credit if calling somewhere not covered by the subscription.
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Good luck!
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Ever since I renewed my original US phone number it no longer shows up the same. While people can dial my US number and reach me. Yet if I call them my 310 US number shows up as a 661 area code or unknown caller, why is this? And can it be changed back to my original 310 number that appears when I call friends and family?
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mranderson314 wrote:
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mranderson314 wrote:
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Has anyone had any issues with this? If I add a client to my Skype and they ring me, I want to be able to know who it is before I pick it up, like a normal mobile phone does.
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2. After the subscription expires, sign on to your account details. You should be presented with a triangle icon with an exclamation mark inside of it, and be greeted with the message that your Skype Number subscription has expired. Click on the "Reactivate" link, and proceed to renew; at that time,
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