Creating a phone number abroad may be necessary to establish a local agent or subsidiary abroad or open a bank account in a foreign bank.
When creating a company in the USA, the local phone number was mandatory for opening a bank account, so I discovered SONETEL’s services.
The company offers a phone number in any country for $1.99 monthly. However, this is not entirely accurate: some areas remain overtaxed or not very accessible, such as North Korea L.
In practice, you open an account for a test period and choose your country, province, and phone number from a proposed list. A test period of about ten days is offered to you.
Once the phone number is created, you can:
- Set up a telephone answering machine
- Redirect the phone number to any other phone number in the world
The options offered are much more numerous:
For all phone numbers in North America, SMS can also be redirected to your email.
The hotline is based in India. It is attentive and competent. I had the opportunity to test it on the SMS option, which initially did not work. They dealt with the problem from start to finish, even going back to the operator to solve it.
The other alternative I hesitated between was Skype, but for a much more expensive shot (around $8 per month).
For those who want it, a premium offer for $9.95 is proposed with the following options:
- Free calls to 42 countries,
- 25% discount to other destinations,
- Additional options: IVR, SMS-to-email, Fax-to-email,
- Conference calls with 25 participants,
- Priority SONETEL support.
In conclusion, this is a serious offer of telephony abroad to help develop your export business, with an excellent quality-price ratio.
Another alternative is to use Google Fi, but it’s much more expensive ($25 monthly).
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