How Many Minutes are Included With My Toll Free Number?
If you are interested or in need of a toll free number, you have plenty of plans from which to choose. All of CallForwarding’s toll free numbers are available with an unlimited amount of minutes on a pay-as-you-go basis. This allows you to pay only for what you use. For some countries including the United States, CallForwarding.com offers calling plans that include monthly calling minutes.
Toll free numbers are available in almost any country in the world, but the number of minutes you receive will vary depending on a few factors. CallForwarding.com offers pay-as-you-go plans for every country where toll free numbers are available. The pay as you go plans offer an unlimited amount of minutes, and you pay only for what you use with these popular pay as you go plans.
For the United States, and soon for other popular locations, CallForwarding.com offers monthly calling plans. These convenient calling plans typically offer blocks of 500, 1,000, or 3,000 minutes of calling time per month at a discounted rate. These calling plans are very popular with enterprise and SMB customers who will be receiving a lot of sales and support calls.
You can purchase a monthly plan that fits the amount of minutes you’ll need to receive calls from your customers. The calling plans provide the discounted talk time rates for calls that originate in or terminate in the country for which their sold. For example, the United States calling plans are perfect for receiving calls on your US 8XX toll free number (like 888-123-4567) and forwarding the calls to your office in Singapore, Australia, or India.
The actual number of minutes that you get at the discounted rate is planned for VoIP termination (to your softphone). When you terminate the calls to your mobile phone or landline, the extra costs for mobile or landline termination will reduce the number of discounted minutes you get per month. In other words, forwarding to your mobile phone will use up your calling plan minutes at a faster rate.
Pay-as-You-Go Calling Plans Versus Monthly Calling Plans
CallForwarding offers pay-as-you-go calling plans worldwide, as well as monthly calling plans for USA toll free numbers. How do you decide which type of plan is right for your business? Determine which plan to choose based on how many minutes you are planning to use and your budget. CallForwarding offers a variety of plans to accommodate businesses of all sizes, from start-up’s to enterprises all around the world.
Pay-as-You-Go Plans – With a “pay-by-the-minute” (pay-as-you-go) plan, you only pay for the actual minutes you use and a small service charge each month. Normally it is only a small charge per minute, typically under $0.05 USD per minute. You pay the same rate on all minutes used.
Monthly service charges depend on the country where the toll free number will operate (where your customers are). This typically ranges from $9 to $20 dollars per month. A few countries have higher rates between $20-80 dollars a month.
The exact rate will depend on both the location of the toll free number (originating country where your customers reside), and the termination – VoIP termination to a soft phone on your laptop, mobile phone, or landline in your office.
Monthly Calling Plans – With a monthly calling plan, you purchase monthly service that includes a block calling minutes. Extra minutes are added on at a fixed rate, as needed. The minutes are used when customers call your office through your toll free number. CallForwarding offers USA toll free number calling plans with increments of 500, 1,000 and 3,000 minutes. The cost per month increases with the amount of minutes you purchase.
Many large businesses and enterprises utilize CallForwarding.com calling plans because they offer a discounted per-minute rate that is overall less expensive for the large amount of minutes they use each month.
The number of minutes quoted with each plan is based on VoIP termination. That means we calculate how many minutes you’ll have based on the call being forwarded to your laptop softphone or a VoIP desktop phone on your network. If you choose to route customer calls made to your toll free number to your mobile phone or landline, the number of minutes provided in the calling plan will be slightly reduced because of the additional termination charges that apply to landline and mobile phone termination.
If you need a toll free number, you have plenty options and plans to from which to choose. A friendly CallForwarding.com account manager can explain all these options to you and can help you work out which is best for you.
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