Comments for Third-party SkypeIn Jetnumbers

Third-party SkypeIn Jetnumbers

2008-01-09T22:27:26Z

Skype currently is limited to a few countries for SkypeIn numbers. So what if you want local dial access in a country NOT supported by Skype? Well, Jetnumbers.com claims to have the answer. They wrote TMC to say, "JetNumbers.com has just launched a new usage for its call forwarding service. After months of development, we can now provide our clients with VIRTUAL TO SKYPE plans. Now, any virtual phone number from Jetnumbers can be forwarded to any Skype account instead of being forwarded to a regular landline or mobile phone."

I'm not exactly sure how this works, since your SkypeIn software client only accepts calls coming into your paid SkypeIn phone number. For example sake, let's say your SkypeIn phone number is 203-555-1234. It would appear Jetnumbers must do call forwarding (mapping) between a registered Jetnumber phone number, say 212-555-5555 and your "paid" SkypeIn number (203-555-1234). So when you dial 212-555-5555 (Jetnumber) it forwards the call to your "real" SkypeIn number of 203-555-1234. I guess there are some uses to that (local dial access), but you still have to pay for your SkypeIn number. The way the email was written to me it made it sound like you could bypass paying for a SkypeIn number all together. I guess the value is the ability to have local phone number presence in multiple countries. Businesses, especially entrepreneurs might find that useful.

Mapping phone numbers to Skype usernames would be a cool feature as well. Though when you pay for SkypeIn, you get unlimited SkypeIn calling, so it's not like you save SkypeIn credits. Further, Jetnumbers obviously tacks on their service fees for forwarding the call. So you really must need & want virtual phone numbers to use this service.

Jetnumbers claims to support over 40 countries, including Spain, Israel and Russia. The beta is free for top bloggers if you're interested. I'm a tad busy to try myself, so if you do, let me know how it goes.

Comment from mark on 2008-01-10

2008-01-10T11:43:58Z

great idea! I believe you don't have to pay for the Skypein number, but you need to be a Skype user to be able to use this service.
This may help lots of Skype users that need the service in more countries than are currently offered.
I will get a try and let you know...

Comment from Sergio Fogel on 2008-01-10

2008-01-10T14:02:12Z

Mark is right. No SkypeIn number is needed, the service is a SkypeIn replacement.

Comment from ers on 2008-01-10

2008-01-10T17:48:48Z

i prefer mobivox )

Comment from mark on 2008-02-06

2008-02-06T13:08:07Z

i've tried mobivox and ended up paying fees like any other site. Make sense if the other person has mobivox too, otherwise is worthless

Comment from Sean L on 2008-02-17

2008-02-18T02:58:30Z

The author's analysis of the service is completely wrong. I'll give the author the benefit of the doubt and pretend that jetnumbers website was unclear at the time of writing (it is pretty crystal clear presently), but an update should be made as t his blog hits close to the top on searches regarding jetnumbers and skype.

Comment from Stefan on 2008-06-18

2008-06-18T21:57:50Z

The author is soooo wrong...I just registered for a free Skype-in number with Jetnumbers. As in most of the cases when we're talking about Voip, I'm paying nothing. 0. It's free. Well, the catch: it's a number + extension.
Also: I've never ever paid anything to Mobivox. Mobivox works perfectly fine and free for calls from my cell phone to my Skype contacts (we're talking about calls lasting a few hours here).
For people who need to call-out a PSTN phone number obviously Mobivox is not the solution neither is Jetnumbers. For that you would need a free SIP provider set up together with a free DID or you need to set up your own free Callback service which is what I am doing now.
Anyways, the author shouldn't write articles about something he has never tried himself (to get a Jetnumbers free Skype number you need to register and wait for a token to be sent to you, it took about 12 hours in my case).

Comment from Josh Stephens on 2009-07-20

2009-07-20T14:17:57Z

Hi,

Another great tool for receiving incoming DID calls on Skype is gizmoprojest.com with their opensky project.

Other users of gizmo can call you from their gizmo client which can also run on mobile phones.

If you have an incoming DID that can be peered to a SIP URI, you can just peer it to yourgizmoid@proxy01.sipphone.com (replace yourgizmoid) and then forward your gizmo calls to skype (from the gizmo account area)

- regards, josh

Comment from Derk on 2010-08-19

2010-08-19T04:23:45Z

The jetnumbers people ask for a copy of my passport when I try to signup for the Skype number. Their t&c are in broken English. All in all it does not look very trustworthy at all.

This is what they sent me while I wrote this:

"Iâ€™m afraid to tell you that your credit card transaction was decline by the Federal Communication Commission."

I've never heard such nonsense.

Comment from josh on 2010-08-19

2010-08-19T15:23:45Z

Derek in the post above demonstrates a lack of knowledge as far as DID providers and their responsability to local carriers is concerned.

It is quite normal for a DID provider to requiest ID documents - even more so if your credit card payment has been blocked!

Are you able to get a pstn line in your own country without supplying ID ? No.

Comment from Derk on 2010-08-19

2010-08-20T00:54:32Z

I understand Josh's point he is all wrong. Let me explain.

Jetnumbers said it declined my credit card because the FCC does not approve it. That is a false claim. The FCC does not approve credit cards.

If Jetnumbers had been honest, they have said their fraud detection software did not approve the transaction (because I use a VPN in the US, am based in Asia and have an address in the Netherlands) I would have understood. I am used to that. Amazon, Paypal and many other companies I deal with have happily lived with that for years, but well. No every company wants to pay for good fraud detection.

If Jetnumbers had approved my card and asked for a copy of ID to setup my line in the Netherlands, it would have made perfect sense to me.

However they do not need my ID to set up the line, they emailed me that if I paid via Western Union or wire, they would not need an ID.

In other words, Jetnumbers needs to improve their fraud detection software, their crappy English, and the signup process to inspire confidence. They do not give the impression they are a well managed company that cares.

Comment from josh on 2010-08-20

2010-08-20T18:32:39Z

hi,

yes, i realised that after I posted. It certainly sounds like a portion of BS they served up alright.

The only thing I know about jetnumbers is that they have been caught before using 'black' seo techniques... paying for blog posts and stuff like that.

i think they got caught paying for tweets or some such rubbish a while ago.

If that is what they have to do to get noticed... well, I guess that says it all. TBH I never hear them mentioned by any industry contacts.