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Need a Local Overseas Phone Number?

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Written by Martin Style

If you're one of the many people in Australia that is originally from overseas or has family overseas, you and your family are probably getting killed by high phone bills? Wouldn't it be great if you could have a local number overseas that your friends and family can call and immediately reach you on your mobile phone? Sounds like an expensive service, right? Well, it doesn't have to be. I discovered a solution to this quite a while ago and have been using it for a long time. That solution is Skype.

You've probably heard of Skype. They do have millions of users and you might even be one of them. However, a lot of people haven't discovered all of the new features that the Skype team have added. One of them is the ability to have a personal number in pretty much any country in the World and have that diverted to your Skype account. "But I'm not always on my computer", I hear you cry! Well, you can also have your Skype diverted to any other external number, like your mobile phone.

I'm never on Skype, even when I'm on the computer. I live in Australia and I also have an overseas Skype number (that is just a normal looking number) that my friends can call me on. It's then immediately forwarded to my Australian cellphone through Skype. When people call me, I pay Skype's cheap rates, rather than ridiculously expensive roaming charges. Plus.. the call quality is fantastic.

I've spread this tip around and now many of my friends have numbers in England, Hong Kong, Sweden, United States and others, and the funny thing is that when they give out their 'local overseas' number, it's their family who are overjoyed cause they now feel just a little bit closer to Australia.

Give them a try at skype.com

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