Free VOIP or E-Free Local Phone
This is a follow up to my earlier post Free VOIP or E-Free Home Phone and may not make sense on its own.
Once you have signed up for a voip.ms account, and your voip is working, you may decide that you want a number with a local area code. Consider checking with your neighbors to see what prefix is common to your area. You may be able to match it.
Getting a number with a local area code is this easy;
- Add funds to your account Finances -> Add Funds -> do your thing
- Go to DID Numbers -> Order DID(s) -> choose your country, state, city, favorite available phone number. Mine costs $1 a month.
If you like you can configure your device to use your area code as the default, just as a standard landline does, through one settings change;
- Open you ATA config, login and switch to advanced view.
- Select Line 1 and change the value in Dial Plan to (<:1AAA>[2-9]xxxxxx|1[2-9]xx[2-9]xxxxxxS0|[2-9]xx[2-9]xxxxxxS0|*xx|*xx.|[34689]11|822|4443|4747|0|00|[2-9]xxxxxx|1[2-9]xx[2-9]xxxxxxS0|4XXX|xxxxxxxxxxxx.)
- Next, change characters 5,6 and 7 (currently AAA) to your area code.
Aaaaaaand test. Pick up your phone and dial a local number without the area code. If you have credits in your account the call should go through and you will see the charges on your voip.ms account under CDR and Reports -> Call Detail Records: filter accordingly
Hope this helps.
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