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What's everyone's best way to forward calls while on the road?

I am interested in hearing how everyone keep in touch while on the road.

I’ll be moving to China for the next year or two, and likely to be dividing my time between U.S. and China, so I was wondering what the best way is to set up so calls to my cellphone/mobile in the States can be forward to a number that I’ll have in China.

I am debating rather or not it is wise to maintain a phone number in the States if I’ll be gone for so long. Any thoughts? Such as if that is a business wise decision….

by Fang Liang at Wed Apr 30 10:19:16 UTC 2008 (ed. May 2 2008) san francisco, United States | Bookmark this | Digg this |

I’ve got a US number through skype that forwards to my Chinese cell phone for 2 cents a minute. The phone number costs 16 dollars for 3 months, or something like that. You can set up the forwarding to go to multiple phone numbers. No need to have your skype account or computer on for the forwarding to happen, either.

by M. Scott Brauer | 30 Apr 2008 13:04 | Nanjing, China |
check http://www.vonage.com/
i used it it works for me

by Dominik | 30 Apr 2008 14:04 | zurich, Switzerland |
I used to have a cingular cell phone, and they had me by the juevos, when it came to leaving to country…

This last time, my contract was finally up, and so i switched my number over to sprint, who has a deal where you can pay $5 a month to keep your number for sixth month periods, without actually using the phone… This way I dont lose my US business line for if i want to go home…

And now, I just have a local number here in mex, and thinking i may do the skype thing to forward to my cell here…

Anyways… not sure if this was the best way to do it, as I didnt have the foresight to ask on here, like you have…

And, if you are not going to be back in the states within 6 months, then it wont work for you.

I am thinking to re-hook it up when im in the states on biz, then disconnect again when i leave back to here… but, we’ll see how it works, as the cell company fascists may have other ideas.

China for 2 years Fang…. sweet! See ya down here for foundry first though man.

by Brian L Frank | 01 May 2008 01:05 | Mexico City, Mexico |
Thanks, everyone for the help.

Think I will look up and doing the Skype thing.

by Fang Liang | 02 May 2008 05:05 | san francisco, United States |
M. Scott – ‘Just so I’m clear (me, being dumber than a rock sometimes) you forward your mobile to skype which then forwards to your “local” number wherever in the world you are?

by John Robert Fulton Jr. | 02 May 2008 09:05 | Fort Worth, Texas, United States |

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Fang Liang, Photographer Fang Liang
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Beijing , China
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Seattle, WA , United States ( AAA )
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