How You Might Use a Toll Free Number

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A toll free number is one where the person receiving the call pays for the call, rather than the caller. Whether you manage a large company or a small, home-based business, you can benefit by having your own toll free number. Even if you're not in business, you may find having a personal toll free number to be a convenient way to save money on phone calls you or your family members make to your home.

We offer both Personal toll free numbers and Commercial toll free numbers. No extra lines are needed to install a toll free number. All toll free numbers ring to the existing phone number that you specify. All numbers beginning with 800,888,877, and 866 are toll-free and work exactly the same. True 800 numbers have been in use the longest and are the most popular as the public is more familiar with them, but most 800 numbers are already in use. If you choose an 8-0-0 number, you might find that you receive some wrong number calls meant for the previous owner of that number. 888 is the next oldest, followed by 877. 866 numbers are the newest and have the best availability and fewest wrong number calls.

Consider how you might use a toll free number:

• You travel and you call home frequently. No need of calling cards; just dial your personal toll free number.
• Your home is a long distance call from your office. Use your personal toll free number to call home.
• You want to encourage your grandchildren or your aging parents to call you more often without incuring long distance charges. Give them your personal toll free number to call you on.
• You have children away at college and you don't want them to call you collect. Tell the kids to call you often on your personal toll free number.
• You operate a business and want to encourage your customers to call or fax you by offering toll-free access. Get a business toll free number to ring to your regular phone and/or fax machine.
• You want to avoid the high costs of collect calls. Don't call home collect - use your personal toll free number.
• You call home while traveling to retrieve messages from your answering machine or voicemail service. Again, your personal toll free number will make this easy.
• You want to access your internet account with a toll-free number while traveling. Just set up your toll free 800 number to ring to your ISP.
• You could have a toll free 800 number ring to your office, your home, your pager, your voicemail, your cell phone, your girlfriend/boyfriend, your fax machine, or even your internet provider. Any regular phone number can have a toll free 800 number pointing to it. No extra phone lines are required.
• You can get an Internet Fax service and point your toll free number to ring to it. See our article - Toll Free Internet Fax Service

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