[OFF?] Free or affordable German voice mail number?

inquisitor · 12-11-2013, 16:36

There are several free VoIP providers in Germany such as sipgate. However as German law requires geographic numbers to be assigned only to residents of the corresponding geographical area (or people who can prove a relevant relation to the area, such as a business), they do all verify subscribers' residency before assigning a geographic number. Unfortunately non-geographic numbers in the 032-numbering range which was intended for new innovative services such as VoIP have never gained market acceptance and so there's no more provider who would issue such.
Hence there's no legal way to get a German number for foreigners.

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inquisitor (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Professionist Posts: 1,399 Join Date: 15 Nov 2006 Country:	12-11-2013, 16:36 There are several free VoIP providers in Germany such as sipgate. However as German law requires geographic numbers to be assigned only to residents of the corresponding geographical area (or people who can prove a relevant relation to the area, such as a business), they do all verify subscribers' residency before assigning a geographic number. Unfortunately non-geographic numbers in the 032-numbering range which was intended for new innovative services such as VoIP have never gained market acceptance and so there's no more provider who would issue such. Hence there's no legal way to get a German number for foreigners. terminals: Samsung: Galaxy S5 DuoS (G900FD); BLU: Win HD LTE; Nokia: 1200; Asus: Fonepad 7 ME372CG; Huawei data: E3372, Vodafone R201, K3765, E1762; postpaid: O2 on Business XL; prepaid: DE: Aldi Talk, Lidl; UK: 3; BG: MTel, vivacom; RU: MTS; RS: MTS; UAE: du Tourist SIM; INT'L: toggle mobile VoIP: sipgate.de (German DID); sipgate.co.uk (British DID); ukddi.com (British DID); sipcall.ch (Swiss DID); megafon.bg (Bulgarian DID); InterVoip.com