jcm's blog

I’ve got a vanity cellphone number in the UK that ends in 131337, as many of you already know. I plan to keep this number pretty much indefinately and once I relocate, I’ll continue to pay for it and have it direct to a VoIP gateway that’ll shove traffic over to a cellphone wherever I’m actually at. This is all well and good, but I want a vanity number in the US too (cheaper for people to call me).

So, last night I had another look at vanity numbers. This time, I think I want a DID VoIP style number that can fallback to a direct cellphone. Specifically, I want a 617 area code DID number that ends in 31337 and I’m willing to pay a reasonable amount for this vanity too. I’ve mailed a bunch of providers about it but I’m interested in recommendations.

The fallback is to get a regular cell number of the form that I want, but I can’t so easily do that prior to having a residence in the United States. I have incidentally already inquired with HSBC about setting up an account with them in the UK since they can help me to port over my financial history to the US that way. But I nonetheless expect it to be hassle.

Jon.

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