Hiding Number When Calling Overseas

[jay1980]

One of my tenants in London is a bit tardy paying his rent, and needs a call or 2 to remind him....

If he saw I was oversea's I think I would not get any rent from him until I was back, so is there any way to hide my thai number (12call) so it would come as no number displaying on his UK cellphone?

thanks in advance

[richard_smith237]

Try from your computer using skype ?

[nikster]

Good story.

"Honey, I am still on my business trip up north...."

Seriously, yeah Skype should work. Or Google Voice. Both can be set up to provide a virtual phone number in the UK that can both receive and make calls. That costs a little extra, but not very much. Edit: I don't actually know whether Google Voice works in the UK, look it up.

Edited November 2, 2011 by nikster

[Somtamnication]

Skype works perfectly. Especially if you have to call your bank or those idiots at Paypal. Local UK (or whatever country) number shows up on their caller id.

[saengsureeya]

Try the following site. It's GSM Advance (the post paid brother of 12Call).

Otherwise dial 1175 for the call center and they can activitvate or explain.

You can activate ALL outgoing calls or only some designated calls.

http://www.gsmadvance.ais.co.th/en/private-number.html

[briley]

To the UK - don't bother trying to hide it. BT will show it as 'international' whatever you do as it is from overseas.

But then they often show calls using UK's redirect services like 18185 etc as international as well.

[jay1980]

ok, thanks for the replies

was hoping not to have to bother setting up a skype account for a couple of 5 min calls but no problem, useful for the future anyway

5555 to Mr Nikster

cheers