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> I hope someone can help me with this. I am planning to move to
> Portugal (or possibly Spain) in the near future (semi-retirement) but
> will need to continue running my small internet and telephone reliant
> business from my new location. All new customers are UK based and it
> will be important for credibilty that they get the impression that I
> am located in the UK.
>
> I have found a service via which I can divert UK calls to my new
> location whilst disguising the foreign ringtone (which would be a
> giveaway), and I could of course use a call answering service, so no
> problem with incoming calls.
>
> But when I call someone back who is located in the UK the CLI will
> show +351....... or +354....... I am looking for some way to hide or
> block the CLI -- perhaps by re-routing my call or some such thing?
>
> Any ideas greatly appreciated...

> Freddie wrote:
>> I hope someone can help me with this. I am planning to move to
>> Portugal (or possibly Spain) in the near future (semi-retirement) but
>> will need to continue running my small internet and telephone reliant
>> business from my new location. All new customers are UK based and it
>> will be important for credibilty that they get the impression that I
>> am located in the UK.
>>
>> I have found a service via which I can divert UK calls to my new
>> location whilst disguising the foreign ringtone (which would be a
>> giveaway), and I could of course use a call answering service, so no
>> problem with incoming calls.
>>
>> But when I call someone back who is located in the UK the CLI will
>> show +351....... or +354....... I am looking for some way to hide or
>> block the CLI -- perhaps by re-routing my call or some such thing?
>>
>> Any ideas greatly appreciated...
>
> Why should anyone help you when you clearly intend to deceive your potential
> customers?

> Freddie wrote:
> > I hope someone can help me with this. I am planning to move to
> > Portugal (or possibly Spain) in the near future (semi-retirement)
> > but will need to continue running my small internet and telephone
> > reliant business from my new location. All new customers are UK
> > based and it will be important for credibilty that they get the
> > impression that I am located in the UK.
> >
> > I have found a service via which I can divert UK calls to my new
> > location whilst disguising the foreign ringtone (which would be a
> > giveaway), and I could of course use a call answering service, so no
> > problem with incoming calls.
> >
> > But when I call someone back who is located in the UK the CLI will
> > show +351....... or +354....... I am looking for some way to hide or
> > block the CLI -- perhaps by re-routing my call or some such thing?
> >
> > Any ideas greatly appreciated...
>
> Why should anyone help you when you clearly intend to deceive your
> potential customers?
>
>
> Peter Crosland
>
> g6jns@yahoo.co.uk

>I hope someone can help me with this. I am planning to move to Portugal (or
>possibly Spain) in the near future (semi-retirement) but will need to
>continue running my small internet and telephone reliant business from my
>new location. All new customers are UK based and it will be important for
>credibilty that they get the impression that I am located in the UK.
>
>I have found a service via which I can divert UK calls to my new location
>whilst disguising the foreign ringtone (which would be a giveaway), and I
>could of course use a call answering service, so no problem with incoming
>calls.
>
>But when I call someone back who is located in the UK the CLI will show
>+351....... or +354....... I am looking for some way to hide or block the
>CLI -- perhaps by re-routing my call or some such thing?
>
>Any ideas greatly appreciated...
>
>Thanks
>Freddie
>~
>

> Freddie wrote
> on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:06:25 -0000 in message
> :
>
> > I hope someone can help me with this. I am planning to move to
> > Portugal (or possibly Spain) in the near future (semi-retirement)
> > but will need to continue running my small internet and telephone
> > reliant business from my new location. All new customers are UK
> > based and it will be important for credibilty that they get the
> > impression that I am located in the UK.
> >
> > I have found a service via which I can divert UK calls to my new
> > location whilst disguising the foreign ringtone (which would be a
> > giveaway), and I could of course use a call answering service, so
> > no problem with incoming calls.
> >
> > But when I call someone back who is located in the UK the CLI will
> > show +351....... or +354....... I am looking for some way to hide
> > or block the CLI -- perhaps by re-routing my call or some such
> > thing?
> >
> > Any ideas greatly appreciated...
> >
> > Thanks
> > Freddie
> > ~
> >
>
> I agree with Jono, VoIP looks like it could be your answer as long as
> you have decent broadband connection.
>
> Set up correctly no one would know you wasnt in the UK, calls would
> come in on the UK number and wouldnt cost you to receive, calls
> would be made and appear as a UK number.

> {{{{{Welcome}}}}} wrote:
>
>> Freddie wrote
>> on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:06:25 -0000 in message
>> :
>>
>>> I hope someone can help me with this. I am planning to move to
>>> Portugal (or possibly Spain) in the near future (semi-retirement)
>>> but will need to continue running my small internet and telephone
>>> reliant business from my new location. All new customers are UK
>>> based and it will be important for credibilty that they get the
>>> impression that I am located in the UK.
>>>
>>> I have found a service via which I can divert UK calls to my new
>>> location whilst disguising the foreign ringtone (which would be a
>>> giveaway), and I could of course use a call answering service, so
>>> no problem with incoming calls.
>>>
>>> But when I call someone back who is located in the UK the CLI will
>>> show +351....... or +354....... I am looking for some way to hide
>>> or block the CLI -- perhaps by re-routing my call or some such
>>> thing?
>>>
>>> Any ideas greatly appreciated...
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Freddie
>>> ~
>>>
>>
>> I agree with Jono, VoIP looks like it could be your answer as long as
>> you have decent broadband connection.
>>
>> Set up correctly no one would know you wasnt in the UK, calls would
>> come in on the UK number and wouldnt cost you to receive, calls
>> would be made and appear as a UK number.
>
>
> Many thanks Jono and [[Welcome]]. VoIP seems to be the answer then.
>
> Many calls would be to UK mobiles. Is this a problem with VoIP, and
> will they cost much? (I dont know much about VoIP yet!)
>
> Thanks
> ~