Mobile Number Forwarding for Protection of my Real Number!

slenderkitten

Hi

I have registered on a number of websites looking for jobs. Obviously, spam etc is rife and no doubt anyone can sign up to be an employer to take information from these sites. Emails are easy to forward which is fine.

I want to find some sort of service where i can disguise my mobile or where i can purchase an alternative mobile number that redirects to my REAL mobile number. I realise it will be a pay service!

Any suggestions?

grumbler

>> Temporary phone number

Buzby

Sign up to Flextel. You get a free 070xx number that you port to your actual mobile - the inbound CLI also shows. As long as folk call it, the number stays in use.

slenderkitten

i forgot to mention i also have family abroad is there a way to reduce the call rates as they will only be able to contact me via mobile when i ditch my landline (only had it so they and other family in uk could call me as they dislike calling mobiles)

Buzby

They also provide 01/02/03 numbers also, but you will have to pay the cost difference firstly for the number, then for the number of minutes each diversion costs.

It is better to use VOIP (like Skype) as calling a mobile will always cost more, irrespective of where the call comes from.

slenderkitten

hmm i'm not sure that i wish to pay for receiving calls at the same time. i will be moving about so wont necessarily have access to home broadband?

how does this work with flextel, i still dont understand how it works. certainly for forwarding the number i do not wish to be paying for people to contact me about jobs - i just want to know what is FREE.

NFH

I use Flextel for this purpose and several others. One big advantage is that you can forward it to foreign mobile numbers, which is very useful when I'm using a local SIM card while travelling. The caller pays for the cost of this (at around 50p/min). Another advantage is that Flextel can send you an e-mail of every incoming call which shows the caller's number, even if withheld but missing the last 3 digits.

The disadvantage is that Flextel are not allowed to support "tromboning", whereby the caller is abroad and the destination number is also abroad. Therefore you can receive calls from outside the UK only when the destination number is a UK number.

Ypaymore

Buzby wrote: »

Sign up to Flextel. You get a free 070xx number that you port to your actual mobile - the inbound CLI also shows. As long as folk call it, the number stays in use.

But as its not a normal mobile number a prospective employer might be put off from calling it ,especially as its a premium rate to call it.

redux

I think the simplest option is get another SIM and either put it in another phone or choose one which supports call diversion on PAYG. These include Family Mobile, giffgaff and Three, diversion cost at their tariff.

If you want an ordinary landline number diverted to your mobile, then plenty of providers can do this. As wholesale rates to UK mobiles are now about a penny a minute and retail from about two pence it needn't cost a lot to divert to a mobile.

Buzby

Ypaymore wrote: »

But as its not a normal mobile number a prospective employer might be put off from calling it ,especially as its a premium rate to call it.

Someone has to pay for the service - either the recipient does, or caller does. Which is it to be? As for an employer possibly being 'put off' I'd wager anyone in HR (1) wouldn't notice (2) wouldn't care, assuming they did.

Bear in mind these are also the firms that hide their real numbers so WE have to dial 0870/0871 to contact them. Since they clearly don't care, why should the OP?

NFH

Buzby wrote: »

Someone has to pay for the service - either the recipient does, or caller does. Which is it to be? As for an employer possibly being 'put off' I'd wager anyone in HR (1) wouldn't notice (2) wouldn't care, assuming they did.

Absolutely correct. Callers don't even care because their employer is paying. Even if I point out that my Flextel 07010 number is very expensive and give them my underlying Orange number, they still continue calling my Flextel number.