If you are located outside Canada and have customers, affiliates, business partners or vendors in Winnipeg or elsewhere in Ontario, you can now provide them with a local phone number in Winnipeg (area code 204) that will ring directly to your mobile phone or fixed landline wherever in the world you care located. Your “ring to” number (the number on which you receive your calls from Winnipeg) can be modified at any time via online account management. You can change it to any number in the world that you wish.
It's simple. When setting up your account, you select the city and city code of your local, or virtual number, in Canada For Winnipeg, you would use the pull-down menu from the order form to select "Canada (+1)." You would then designate "Winnipeg (+1 204)." Once your account has been set up, your callers in Winnipeg or elsewhere in Canada dial your assigned virtual number - and are automatically connected to your fixed land line or mobile number wherever in the world you may be located. You can divert your calls to any telephone number in the world when and as your circumstances require. You can customize your settings and route calls anywhere in the world – when, where, and how you want it.
It is critical to highlight that this service is not a VoIP service. Rather, it is an international call forwarding solution for those who demand reliability. The service is routed over the public switched telephone network (PSTN). The PSTN is the network of the world's public circuit-switched telephone networks, which includes mobile as well as fixed line telephones. It is the world's collection of interconnected voice-oriented public telephone networks, both commercial and government owned. Call forwarding services that route their traffic via VoIP can be subject to packet loss and therefore result in negative call quality. To the contrary, we will forward or divert calls from your virtual number in Winnipeg over the PSTN.
Setting up a Winnipeg virtual phone number allows you to establish a business presence in Winnipeg without having a physical location. Winnipeg lies at the geographic centre of North America and is the capital city of Manitoba, a resource-rich province of 1.3 million people. Winnipeg is a welcoming gateway, a centre of commerce and trade, and a centre for arts and culture, with a rich history and growing economic opportunity.
Winnipeg has one of the most diverse economies of any major city in Canada. Key industries include advanced manufacturing, aerospace, agribusiness, creative industries, energy and environment, financial industries, information, communications and technology, life sciences, tourism, transportation and distribution.
It’s a simple fact that clients in Winnipeg or elsewhere in Canada are more likely to dial a local number as opposed to making an international number call. Having a local number in Winnipeg not only gives you the presence in Canada , but it also indicates that you are serious about doing business.
Your callers in Winnipeg or elsewhere in Canada are responsible for local charges assessed by their local telecom provider for dialing your virtual phone number in Winnipeg. If your caller is calling from outside Canada, he/she will incur whatever charges their long distance provider assesses for making an international call to Canada.
As the account holder, you pay the rate of forwarding the call from your Winnipeg virtual phone number your "ring to" telephone number (your destination number wherever in the world you may be located. Your rate depends on the plan (i.e., Basic, Value, Power, Premium or Enterprise) that you select (see below). Your "ring to" number may be a fixed land line or a mobile phone, and you may change it to another number anywhere else in the world via online account management.
In addition to offering forwarding calls from Winnipeg, we can also forward your calls via virtual numbers and toll free numbers in over 80 countries across the globe. If you require an international call forwarding solution from other countries, we can help. Click here to view availability on a worldwide basis.
Please do not hesitate to contact us. Just click here to fill out our contact form, and let us know any questions you may have re. international call forwarding from Winnipeg or elsewhere in the world.