Manage roaming costs when travelling abroad
Learn how virtual numbers and call forwarding can help manage roaming costs, subject to your operators’ current rates.
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The example rates below are historical, not a current quote. Compare roaming charges, forwarding from your mobile operator, FijoVirtual forwarding and the destination SIM plan. A virtual number does not automatically eliminate roaming charges.
Roaming is nothing other than the state in which a mobile voice or data line is found when we are in a foreign country. In other words, if we take our mobile phone with us when traveling outside our country, it will be in a roaming situation and the operator will charge us according to the international rates we have contracted.
Roaming can be a serious problem, because depending on which countries we travel to, its cost can be very high, even prohibitive in many cases. In reality, surfing the Internet, making a call or even receiving one can ruin us in a very short time. For this there are solutions and our free virtual number‘ or divert landline to mobile services may be the best solution.
It is true that in recent times different governments and especially supranational political powers such as European governing bodies are trying to make roaming disappear, but this is not yet completely the case and when it becomes a reality it will only be within the European space; if you continue traveling outside of Europe, a simple call can have an uncontrolled cost.
Ordering a virtual number costs nothing and can allow us to organize a structure in which calls can be made to the destination country where we are without having to pay the dreaded roaming rates.
There are alternatives to try to avoid roaming, but some of them also have prohibitive costs. On the contrary, ordering a free virtual number in FijoVirtual in which receiving the calls that are received on our mobile while we are traveling and that are bounced to a national telephone of the destination country in which we are located is more than possible, and the entire service triangle has a very small cost.
In fact, with us you can enjoy a free virtual number and you can divert landline to mobile. Furthermore, ordering this type of service and structuring it in this way every time we travel also allows our friends and family to maintain contact with us at a lower cost for them as well, since they will continue to call us at a landline phone or local mobile, and they will not have to pay international rates or know where we are if we do not want to.
How to do it? Suppose you are in Spain and you are going to travel to the United States (for example, although it is applicable to any country in which we have coverage), the first thing you should do is order a FijoVirtual number from Spain (9XXXXXXX from any province), before traveling, forward your Spanish mobile to the contracted FijoVirtual number (this is generally done with **21*[number FijoVirtual]#, check with your mobile phone operator, it is important to do so before traveling), once you are in the United States you buy an American SIM and enter your FijoVirtual control panel and forward your FijoVirtual to the new American mobile number. From that moment on, all calls made to your Spanish landline number will automatically be forwarded to your American mobile phone. This way you don’t pay roaming, you save on all your calls since whoever calls you will pay the same as calling a cell phone and you will pay per minute at €0.045/minute (for the United States at the time of the original publication), and your Spanish mobile operator will charge you €0.07/minute (depending on the rate you have and the type of contract). As you can see, the savings are evident. Order your FijoVirtual from here.
