Virtual Phone Numbers provider profile: Gold Local Numbers

This week we’re going to look at an old favourite from the list of virtual number providers – Gold Local Numbers. Gold Local Numbers is a nice little site, with a line of water along the top of each page, and a happy looking goldfish beneath the waterline.

Further down the page, a talking goldfish appears with speech bubbles highlighting some of their key selling points, such as:
 
•    pay per second billing, where you only pay for exactly what you use
 
•    fully itemised billing, so you have the full details of all your calls

•     no long term contracts, so you only have to give 30 days written notice to cancel
 
•    a range of optional features, with amusing names like Whisper Gold and Golden Greeting
 
Everything on their site is as standard – so they offer STD codes for around 500 different UK towns & cities, all of which are listed on the site, and can be viewed either alphabetically or numerically. Their local numbers are not VOIP (voice over internet protocol), so you get a higher quality phone call. Their numbers can be pointed to a landline or a mobile, and they offer fax to email numbers too.

Virtual fax to email numbers

Just a thought on something I read the other day ...

When you get a virtual local phone number, such as virtual 0207 numbers for London, you are presumably doing it to appear to be somewhere you're not. For example, to appear to be based in an office in London whereas actually you are driving around in a van in London, or based in an office just outside of London to save cost.

However, what people don't think about is that they need to get a fax number to match the virtual number too, otherwise you blow your cover when someone asks for the fax number for your office, and you have to give one which shows you're not in London, or wherever your virtual numbers are set up for.

Getting a virtual fax to email is also a great excuse for modernising the way you receive faxes. Instead of via a fax machine, they're turned into PDF and sent straight to your email account, so you don't have to print them, waste ink, paper, electricity, etc.