Browser based free answering machine with voice mail

At least one VOIP service can be set up to give you a free incoming US phone number with voice mail that gets emailed to your favorite email account.

The Gizmo Project's Area 775 account can be set up so that your calls that go to a phone number in Nevada ring through to voice mail, and that voice mail account notifies you with email with an attachment so that you can play the call. You need a credit card to sign up, and there are opportunities to pay if you use any more advanced features, but some level of functional service is indeed free.

The Telesthetic free access to VOIP networks gives you call-in numbers all throughout the state of Michigan, including such Yooper telecommunications hot spots as Marquette, MI (906-232-0700), Engadine, MI (906-477-2700), and Michigamme, MI (906-323-3700). My local number to call is in Ann Arbor (734-272-0700). From there you can dial an extension that will connect to IAXTel (Asterisk), SIPphone, Gizmo Project, Free World Dialup, and SIP Broker numbers, and in turn if you have voice mail on any of those you get a free answering machine.

I haven't tested Area 775, but John Lodden from Telesthetic left me voice mail on my Gizmo account about 15 minutes after I asked him to test it. To reach my computer, dial 734-272-0700 x 747 671 3977 . It was free to set up, and it's free for me to call from home, and I get an answering machine on that line with free voice mail. It's not quite a local number (that's a pretty extended extension), which is the next thing to tackle.

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Comments

[Alain Fournier]

I just find a very great service for digital phone product, I reduced my monthly fees of 50% and I call call over the world for free and I can make long distance call with my cellular phone for free. The sound is crystal clear and where I found high speed internet, I received my call and can make call. Very great product.

Alain

[Patrick Haggood]

I recently combined my existing DSL from Speakeasy (speakeasy.net) with their VOIP for some monthly savings. Now I get all my voice mail via gmail.