Do yourself a favor and get a free online phone number for your GPT accounts. These online services are easy to use and will save you from getting a bunch of SPAM calls / messages. Best of all you can get the numbers in your local area code so you can check the messages on your home phone.
www.google.com/voice
Features
* Voicemail transcription – transcribes voice calls to text emails.
* One number – link all you phone numbers into one convenient number.
* Personalized greetings – customize a greeting for callers.
* International calling – low cost calls to international countries.
* SMS to email – text message transcribed to text emails.
* Share voicemails – email your voicemails to friends and family
* Block callers – block unwanted calls.
* Screen callers – screen incoming calls, talk to the people you want to.
* Mobile app – use google voice on a compatible cell phone
* Conference calls – make conference calls from your google voice account.