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1-800 Number Service for Cell Phones

Get a 1-800 number for Your Cell Phone

How to Get a Toll Free Number for Your Cell Phone

You don’t need to set up an expensive business phone service to get a simple toll free number that forwards to your cell phone. With Unitel, you can get a 1-800 number that forwards calls straight to your cell phone’s telephone number or use our smartphone app (for iPhone or Android) to receive calls, make calls, and manage your business voicemail.

In both cases, you can keep your existing cell phone (doesn’t matter what kind: AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon, Boost Mobile, Cricket Wireless, smartphone, or flip-phone), keep your personal calls separate from your business calls, and keep your business voicemail separate from your personal voicemail.

Unitel is priced and designed to help on-the-go entrepreneurs, bootstrapped startups, and solo side-gig hustlers run their businesses from their cell phones yet look and sound like a Fortune 500 company.

Most importantly, you’re not renting your business phone number. With Unitel, you own any phone number you purchase outright and can transfer to another provider anytime. No leases. No cancelation fees. No porting fees. No strings. No games. You bought the number. You own it.

Get a 1-800 number for Your Cell Phone

How to Get a Toll Free Number for Your Cell Phone

You don’t need to set up an expensive business phone service to get a simple toll free number that forwards to your cell phone. With Unitel, you can get a 1-800 number that forwards calls straight to your cell phone’s telephone number or use our smartphone app (for iPhone or Android) to receive calls, make calls, and manage your business voicemail.

In both cases, you can keep your existing cell phone (doesn’t matter what kind: AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon, Boost Mobile, Cricket Wireless, smartphone, or flip-phone), keep your personal calls separate from your business calls, and keep your business voicemail separate from your personal voicemail.

Unitel is priced and designed to help on-the-go entrepreneurs, bootstrapped startups, and solo side-gig hustlers run their businesses from their cell phones yet look and sound like a Fortune 500 company.

Most importantly, you’re not renting your business phone number. With Unitel, you own any phone number you purchase outright and can transfer to another provider anytime. No leases. No cancelation fees. No porting fees. No strings. No games. You bought the number. You own it.

6 Things You Need to Know About Getting a 1-800 Number for Your Mobile Phone

1. Toll free 800 numbers are cheap & easy to set up and can forward to any phone.

With Unitel, plans start at $9.99, and you can sign up instantly for a 1-800 phone number and ring it to any of your existing phones (cell, home, office, Skype, Google Voice, softphone, smartphone, VoIP phone, or landline telephone). You simply pick your 1800 number, create your account, and type in the forwarding number. You can also download our free mobile app to make outbound calls, receive inbound calls, and manage your toll free 800 number’s voicemail.

2. Toll free number service includes simple features that make your life easier.

Unitel offers some cool toll free number features that make running your business from your cell phone easy and convenient, so you always sound professional and stay connected.

Smartphone App

You don’t have to use it, but the Unitel smartphone app is free, and it will enhance your toll free service experience by allowing you to make outbound calls, receive inbound calls, transfer calls, manage voicemail, faxes, and call logs.

Time-of-Day-Routing

Unitel offers advanced toll free forwarding features that allow you to forward your toll free number to any phone, group of phones, or voicemail. You can even set your call forwarding to change based on the day of the week or time of day. For example, during the day you could receive calls on your office phone. During the evening you could receive calls on your cell phone, and at night you could send calls straight to voicemail.

Virtual Voicemail

Unitel allows you to set up a virtual voicemail box for your toll free number. You can use your cell phone’s voicemail or set up a different voicemail for your 1-800 number altogether. You can manage your voicemail online or via the mobile app. You can also set voicemail-to-email and receive voicemail sound files and voice-to-text transcriptions sent directly to your email inbox.

Toll Free Fax

With Unitel, your toll free telephone number doubles as an internet fax line (also known as an eFax). That way, you always have a fax line available that allows you to send and receive faxes without needing an old-school fax machine.

Toll Free Texting

You can send and receive toll free SMS text messages using your toll free number. Even set up autoresponders and receive text messages as emails with the ability to reply to the email and have it sent as a toll free number text message.

3. Getting an 800 number makes you look professional, but you can do more.

Displaying a 1-800 phone number on your website and in your advertisements looks more professional than using a local telephone number, but there are other things you can do with you your 800 number service that will give your business trust, and credibility and impress your customers.

Vanity Toll Free Numbers

You can use a vanity 800 number that’s easy-to-remember and boosts your brand or value provision. If the 800 number you want isn’t you can find vanity toll free numbers in other toll free prefixes including 888, 877, 866, 855, 844, 833 and (next to be released) 822 toll free numbers.

Auto Attendants

With Unitel, you can forward your toll free business number directly to your cell phone or set up an auto attendant that greets callers and offers a menu of extensions to select. For example, an auto attendant script might sound like this: “Thank you for calling ABC Consulting…for sales, press one, for support, press two”. Even if you’re a one-person business, you could have your sales and support calls forwarded directly to your cell phone. To callers, you sound like a big, established business.

Virtual PBX

PBX phone systems used to be super complicated (and super expensive), but today with cloud-based business phone systems, they couldn’t be simpler or more affordable. Your toll free number includes virtual PBX features that are built-in, allowing you to not only have a toll free number but a professional business phone system that’s as easy to set up and manage as email.

4. Sometimes, 800 numbers can be hard to find.

True 800 numbers first came out in the 1960s, and since then, most of them have been scooped up by other businesses. However, every time the spear pool of toll free numbers gets too low, the FCC releases a new toll free prefix, such as 888, 877 866, 855, 844, and the most recently released 833 numbers. The next toll free prefix to be released will be 822, but no release date has been set as of yet.

With that said, Unitel has instant access to every available toll free number via the FCC’s national toll free number database. We can help you find a great vanity toll free number, or if you prefer, we do have a select batch of available true 800 numbers for sale.

You can search for these numbers on our signup page. Just go to “Step 2: Choose Your Number” and then select the “Custom Toll Free Search Box” to look for numbers. If you can’t find the number you’re looking for let us know, and we’d be happy to help.

5. If an 800 number is disconnected, that does not mean it’s available.

We get asked this question often, and unfortunately, the answer is no. In many cases, you might call a 1-800 number, and it rings disconnected, but that doesn’t mean it’s “not in use” by another company.

It’s often the case that the 800 number is simply forwarding to a DID line that has been disconnected, so technically, the 800 number is in use and unavailable.  You can confirm by searching for the number on our site or by contacting our support team here at Unitel.

The other side of this coin is that if a toll free number is disconnected, there’s virtually no way to contact the owner of the number to make a purchase offer. The closest you could come is to find out the toll free number in question’s RespOrg (responsible organization, i.e., the phone company that provides service to the number). But even if you track down the RespOrg, the phone company won’t give you their customer’s contact info (they can’t because of privacy issues).

And, even if you somehow identify who owns the 800 number, trying to track down the decision maker willing to listen to your purchase offer is virtually impossible. At the end of the day, your best use of time and money is to get a different number or toll free prefix (855-ROOFING is just as good as 800-ROOFING).

6. If you want an 800 number for your cell phone, you can’t just buy one and transfer it to your cell phone service provider.

Your cell phone provider is not a toll free service provider, so to get an 800 number for your cell phone, you’ll need to set up toll free number service with a third-party company like Unitel.

Unitel is a virtual phone system that’s designed to work with your existing cell phone. With Unitel, you can keep your personal calls separate from your business calls using the same phone. You can forward your 800 number to your cell phone or use our free smartphone app.

 

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