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RTuesday · 29-12-2009, 00:01

Localphone.com is another company that has "direct dial" numbers like Rebtel (be sure to use their US version - might need a US IP address - rather than the UK version, for the lowest rates).

I haven't yet used them with the direct dial. I use them with a Google Voice number pointed to a free Washington State ipkall.com number pointed to the SIP address of my voip account at localcall. When I'm in wi-fi range I pick up the call on VOIP (free), when I'm out it diverts to my Mexican mobile at a reasonable rate (10c/min) - it has failover. I've also done the same in the past with Voipfone.co.uk in the UK, but they make it difficult to subscribe from outside the UK.

Localphone do also have paid US inbound numbers (99c/mo) which is probably better than going through ipkall, one less step.

I have just tried their direct dial numbers after reading this thread (never thought to call them direct rather than voip). There are two problems with this: the numbers get re-allocated a lot so may already be in somebody else's Google Voice account (took me three tries to find an unused one). Secondly, the touch-tones don't seem to get forwarded when I try to verify on Google Voice (I'll work around that by altering the target later).

So, a basic generic solution to forwarding internationally from Google Voice is to set up a prepaid VOIP account, point an ipkall number to it, put the ipkall number in your Google Voice, and forward from the VOIP account to the international number (either all the time, or when the VOIP device isn't registered, if the company supports failover - Localphone and Voipfone do, Callwithus does not, don't know about Rebtel).

Rob

P.S. if you can pick up the call with VOIP, you get free calling to most of US and Canada through Google Voice this way, from anywhere in the world.

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RTuesday (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Expert Posts: 344 Join Date: 28 Mar 2005 Location: See flag Country:	29-12-2009, 00:01 Localphone.com is another company that has "direct dial" numbers like Rebtel (be sure to use their US version - might need a US IP address - rather than the UK version, for the lowest rates). I haven't yet used them with the direct dial. I use them with a Google Voice number pointed to a free Washington State ipkall.com number pointed to the SIP address of my voip account at localcall. When I'm in wi-fi range I pick up the call on VOIP (free), when I'm out it diverts to my Mexican mobile at a reasonable rate (10c/min) - it has failover. I've also done the same in the past with Voipfone.co.uk in the UK, but they make it difficult to subscribe from outside the UK. Localphone do also have paid US inbound numbers (99c/mo) which is probably better than going through ipkall, one less step. I have just tried their direct dial numbers after reading this thread (never thought to call them direct rather than voip). There are two problems with this: the numbers get re-allocated a lot so may already be in somebody else's Google Voice account (took me three tries to find an unused one). Secondly, the touch-tones don't seem to get forwarded when I try to verify on Google Voice (I'll work around that by altering the target later). So, a basic generic solution to forwarding internationally from Google Voice is to set up a prepaid VOIP account, point an ipkall number to it, put the ipkall number in your Google Voice, and forward from the VOIP account to the international number (either all the time, or when the VOIP device isn't registered, if the company supports failover - Localphone and Voipfone do, Callwithus does not, don't know about Rebtel). Rob P.S. if you can pick up the call with VOIP, you get free calling to most of US and Canada through Google Voice this way, from anywhere in the world.