If you’re a small business, you’ll know having a local phone number is worth its weight in gold, but diverting it to your mobile can cost an awful lot of gold. Not any more thanks to our new service, Fixed Number Anywhere.
Fixed Number Anywhere works by creating a local (or 0808 free phone) number specifically for you that goes straight to your mobile. No diverts, no redirections and no need to be sat in the office to take that important call.
We also know that having just one person who can answer the phone isn’t ideal either, which is why one landline number set up for Fixed Number Anywhere can ring up to ten of your team’s mobiles.
You can also have up to five Fixed Number Anywhere landline numbers diverting to your phone, so if you ever wanted to represent your company in John O’ Groats, Lands End, Cardiff, Belfast and London all while sat in Manchester, you’re in luck. Even better, your callers will be charged the standard landline rate for calling you – they won’t get charged any extra.
Fixed Number Anywhere launches in August and will cost £10 per month for 01 and 02 landline numbers and £15 per month for 0808 free phone numbers. Businesses bringing an existing BT 01 or 02 landline number to O2 and taking a new mobile connection will get the service for free. More information will be available on www.o2.co.uk/business"> in the next week.
What a great idea!
Now I hope you will have the vision to exploit this system to the fullest!
For example, it would be a mistake to limit it to business use. Many end-users would entertain the idea of having a landline number that their friends can call for free from their landlines using free minutes etc and reach them on their mobile, without any forwarding costs!
Furthermore, you could implement it in a google-voice-type service, where the O2 landline number rings several landlines and mobiles all at once (ring group) or rings them one at a time (call hunt) until someone answers, or even rings a certain landline or mobile based on criteria such as time of day and caller ID.
The possibilities are limitless and I hope you explore them all!
Regards,
Dino
Posted by: Dino | 23 July 2009 at 12:08 AM
7 days since this piece of news and still no info on the website.
Posted by: Adam Temperton | 29 July 2009 at 12:24 PM
Hi guys,
Is there an email list or similar function for notification of when this is active? Also, will you be able to port our existing VoIP number(s)?
Thanks,
James
Posted by: James Ogilvie | 04 August 2009 at 11:11 AM
When as this is now 2 weeks
Posted by: adam temperton | 04 August 2009 at 12:33 PM
What's happened to this idea? Been kicked into the long grass? It's just the sort of service I'd find very useful, so how about an update?
Posted by: Robert | 05 August 2009 at 07:07 PM
Hi - this will be coming in August and information is going to be on the site later this month now instead of the time we originally quoted. It's definitely coming - please bear with us!
Posted by: JP @ O2 | 07 August 2009 at 01:15 PM
thanks for the update I will be very interested when it happens as we are about to start a new company.
And the free phone 0808 looks a great idea for us.
Posted by: adam temperton | 07 August 2009 at 05:55 PM
Its August. where is this stuff? Nothing on O2 website...
Posted by: nuxnix | 10 August 2009 at 08:49 PM
Its September. Where is this stuff? Nothing on O2 website.
Posted by: nuxnix | 09 September 2009 at 01:27 PM
It's now September and still no news. There's been so much slippage on this you'd almost think it was a government project :-/
Posted by: twitter.com/VATark | 15 September 2009 at 03:09 PM
Hi there - this has already launched! It's available on http://www.o2.co.uk/business, or you can go directly to http://www.o2.co.uk/sme/businessservices/mobilelandline.
Posted by: JP @ O2 | 15 September 2009 at 05:25 PM
That's a dead link.... Dead product? Still birth?
Posted by: Sole Trader | 16 September 2009 at 04:24 PM
Mr. Robert Killington,
Many Thanks. God Bless you!
Raju
Posted by: Raju | 26 September 2009 at 01:58 PM