Welcome to my Telephone Resources site. This site is centered around one thing, and that is my telephone resources, and capabilities. Since I have more than one telephone number, it is not as straight forward as most people. However, if worse came to worst, I will be prepared to have just one number. I do not see this happening, and everything is affordable, and in the end, I am paying less than I would if I was a customer of the Big 3 carriers (AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon).

First, let’s address the services. I have a “cellular” phone service line, and a “home” phone service line. The cellular phone is an iPhone 14 Pro, and the home line is a Google Pixel 7A (with no cellular service). When I leave my home, I only take my iPhone with me, and when I am about to close down for the night, I will turn off my Pixel. All of my numbers will ring to one of these 2 devices.

The cellular phone has 1 phone number attached to it even though it can support 2 eSIMs. When you call my [cellular] number, it will ring this phone. For those that would need to know, this also supports SMS/MMS.

My primary home phone line is a toll-free number. In the US, this does not make much sense as everyone usually has unlimited calling on their cellular phone, and those without unlimited calling will still use their minutes if they called a toll-free number. This should be illegal, but it is obviously not. The toll-free requisite seems to apply to copper line services only. However, I chosen a toll-free number to support calls from Canada and select locations that has their telephone number beginning with +1. For example, rather than getting a US telephone number, a Canadian telephone number, and a Puerto Rico telephone number, one single number can support all three.

I have learned through research about something else that some carriers charges an Alaskan person extra for calling outside of Alaska. This should be illegal, but again – it is not. I have acquired an Alaskan telephone number for this reason. While I don’t know anyone in Alaska, this is still an option if they were to call it. If I notice that this is an Alaskan caller, I will offer to call back. This is because with my carrier, the call is 2¢ per minute for incoming calls. Calling from my cellular phone is free.

I also have international numbers. You can learn more about those by going to [international] number page. These numbers are to make it easier for people to reach me if they live outside of the US. For example, it might be cheaper for someone in Europe to call the UK than to call the US. It is up to you as the caller to make the best decision for you when calling international. If you decide that calling my US number will be your best choice, then I would recommend calling my cellular phone.

And last is my voicemail line. As the name implies, this service will send callers directly to voicemail. You will not ring a phone when calling this number. You will be leaving the voicemail on my home phone line.

And speaking of voicemail, I have 2 voicemail services. One is for my [international] numbers, and the second is from my [cellular] number. In an ideal world, I would only have one to work with, but I can accept 2.