Kegan’s post reminded me to write a long overdue review of Trusling‘s services.
Reasons you may want to retain your mobile number:
- It’s so pretty that everyone wows the first time they hear you utter it.
- More practically – you don’t want to send generic messages to everybody on your contact list informing your discontinuation of your current mobile number.
- You want people whose numbers you’ve lost or didn’t record still be able to contact you.
- You just signed up for a two-year contract with M1 for a crappy LG phone, right before leaving Singapore. (Painful when M1 finally got the rights to sell the iPhone 3GS the very next month.)
Trusling allows you to divert all the calls made to your Singapore (local) mobile number, to your new China (or overseas) number. Friends and families will reach you as per normal at local rates and you get billed local rates too. Works best if you’ve got a free-incoming subscription, like me! You pay a small fee, arguably ten times more than Skype, but you get to retain your local number and continue to utilise your subscription. For more information on how it works, please visit their website.
Admittedly, they are pretty new and there were some hiccups initially. However, they really impressed me with their friendly and efficient customer service. They replied my e-mail enquiries promptly and even called me on my mobile phone to personally iron out some technical kinks. I’m a happy customer!