Receive Phone Calls On Skype From The Phone Network With Ring2Skype

Ring2Skype is a free service which allows you to receive phone calls on Skype from the phone network.Essentially, once you sign up with Ring2Skype, you are provided with a phone number and a private extension.Whenever anyone dials the phone number and asks for your private extension, the call is delivered to your Skype account.In order to answer the call,all you need to do is stay logged into Skype. Ring2Skype provides local phone numbers in more than 40 countries.

Ring2Skype is essentially similar to the SkypeIn numbers provided by Skype, just that Skype provides SkypeIn only for 20 countries whereas, Ring2Skype is available for 40 countries. Also, with SkypeIn you dont need to dial in any extension number ( also SkypeIn is not free ).

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With Ring2Skype,You must ensure that your computer is on and Skype is running in order for the call to come through. If you are not logged into Skype the call will either ring busy or be redirected to voicemail according to your voicemail preferences. You must also ensure that you are using the latest version of Skype

Features provided by Ring2Skype

1.) Support for more than 40 countries.

2.) You can have more than one online number registered to your Skype account.

3.) You can forward a call to your online number as you would with any other phone call.

4.) When a user calls you, you can even have the Welcome message which asks the user to dial in your extension be spoken in your native language. To achieve this, you need to send an audio file in WAV format, tell Ring2Skype the number to which it corresponds, and they’ll load it into the system.

Go ahead, get your own Ring2Skype phone number. If you are still looking out for differences between Skype In and Ring2Skype, well, here you go, Ring2Skype for Skype is FREE. “Skype In” charges you for the service. Another difference is that Ring2Skype for Skype provides numbers in more than 40 countries, while “Skype In” only in 20.

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Ahmad Zabih on October 7th, 2009 at 4:57 am

Ring2skype do not always connect. Its very seldom that I get ring on my phone on PC
Muhammad Masood on December 10th, 2009 at 10:34 am

Hi,

I got a ring2skype number. But when I dial it and provide the extension I always hear ‘The extension is not valid’

Could anyone help me?

THanks.
admin on December 10th, 2009 at 12:19 pm

Have you contacted the support team of ring2skype?

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