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What are ghost telephone numbers?

Often called virtual local numbers, STD area codes or geographic numbers, Number People supply FREE ghost phone numbers for any UK town or city. Our local phone numbers are not attached to a physical telephone line and are virtual cloud based numbers, meaning you don’t have to be physically located in a particular area to benefit from having that areas’ area code.

Your business may be based in Birmingham, but if you want to offer the same services to people based in Wolverhampton, Telford or even London – then it’s as simple as ordering a new ghost telephone number for that area!

Once you have chosen your new ghost telephone number/s, we just need to know where you would like this ghost number to ring. You can forward calls to any UK landline or Mobile number – or a combination of both – in fact you can forward the calls to up to 10 destinations, perfect if you have a team of people that could answer the call.

If you ever need to make changes to the call forwarding set up for the ghost number, or want to order more local ghost numbers then this can be done online at any point with our simple to use online portal.

Number People don’t charge you for your new local ghost number, your 1st number with us will be absolutely free, oh and if you need to add any more ghost numbers, they are just £1 one-off cost to set them up.

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