Looking for Virtual Office in Texas

Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, Rio Grande Valley, etc.

[fischermx]

I'm looking for services of Virtual Offices, the kind of service that is pretty much like a mailbox forwarding but PLUS a telephone service with voice mail or call forwarding.
Any recommendation? (You could private mail me if don't want to post your choices here).

[Corey Bryant]

Freedomvoice offers toll-free solutions for the United States. They also will be offering local numbers as well

-Corey

[hp11]

Check out hq dot com. I used them a few years back and was very satisfied with their services. They are good for business travelers because if you use their services in one location, you have access to all of their other locations.

[fischermx]

Thanks for your comments.

The hq services look quite professionals, very, very professionals, but therefore a bit expensive for me for now.

I think a cool idea would be to just have a phone line with an answering machine, and use it to complement my current mailbox. I'll investigate more on freedomvoice and see if I can make a bundle with it.

[Ocean10000]

My 2 cents.

1. Why not get something like a Vontage or some other ip phone solution for the phone/answering machine, just make sure to get a phone number in the area which you wanted.

2. And then just a mail forwarder as previously said, in that area.

[fischermx]

1. Why not get something like a Vontage or some other ip phone solution for the phone/answering machine, just make sure to get a phone number in the area which you wanted.

Are those available without having a main ordinary line first?

[Philosopher]

I've been using ureach dot com for a while. Fairly cheap and seems to have pretty much everything you said you were looking for.

[Ocean10000]

Are those available without having a main ordinary line first?

IP Phone's just need a broadband quality internet connection to work. Depending on the VOIP provider you choose you can do an all software based version or have a peice of hardware which will allow you to hookup a regular telephone to it.

And they only requirement of most VOIP Systems is that you have cable or DSL working where you are at.

[fischermx]

Thanks for all this info.
I still on the Vonage site.

Virtual Phone Number : Vonage Virtual Phone Numbers are inexpensive secondary numbers that ring to your primary Vonage line.

So, they are an additional stuff to the primary line.

Vonage SoftPhone: Remember, SoftPhone is an add-on service. You need to have a Vonage plan to get Vonage SoftPhone.

Again, you need a normal plan first.

So, I just want a regular phone number where people could eventually call me, and may leave a voice mail message. I'm not interested for now in offering people to call me for free, but if that's the only way to have such a number, I think I'll pay.

[miyagi]

You can use a virtual number service like SkypeIn and combine it with a mail forwarding service like usglobalmail.com.

[Ocean10000]

You need to have a Vonage plan to get Vonage SoftPhone

What this means is that you have to pay for the service so that you can use it. It doesn't mean you have to have a land line run it on, if I am understanding you correctly.