How VoIP Virtual Numbers Work:

Say you are in New York and would like that your friends, relatives or business contacts in California, Colorado or London are able to call you at local rates.

So what you do is to get different virtual numbers for each of these places and get them directed to your primary phone in New York automatically.

While these numbers are local to your callers, they don't cost you much either. Most VoIP service providers would charge you something around $5 a month for each virtual number - a great way to have local presence in a number of places for business and keeping in contact with relatives.

This feature is like the Area Code Selection feature but more convenient - here you can use one phone to remain "local" with a number of contacts in different places cheaply.