Signing Up for Yahoo! Voice
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Signing Up for Yahoo! Phone In
Now you can receive phone calls from traditional phones and mobile phones right on your PC through Yahoo! Messenger. Just get a phone number through the Yahoo! Phone In service and hand it out to your friends. The phone number follows your Yahoo! ID around, so whenever you’re signed into a Yahoo! Messenger client and no matter where you are, your friends can call you. And if you aren’t signed in, or don’t want to take the call, your friends can leave voice messages that you can listen to through an email service of your choice. Yahoo! Phone In is a subscription-based premium service.
It’s easy to get a Phone In number. In fact, you can get a number for almost any place that works for you; you don’t even need to live there. Let’s say your family lives in Boston and you’re in San Francisco. You can get a Phone In number with a Boston area code so that when your family calls you on your PC, it’s a local call for them. To top it off, you can get unlimited numbers assigned to your ID. (Each number carries its own monthly fee and the fee is the same for each number.)
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Here’s How
In the Messenger window, click the Yahoo! Voice button below your name, then select Get a Phone Number for my PC.
The Yahoo! Voice Phone In page opens.
Follow the online instructions to sign up for the Yahoo! Phone In service.
In just minutes after getting your phone number, you can begin receiving calls. Of course, don’t forget to let your friends know what your phone number is!
What’s Next: Confirming Your Phone In Number
After completing the sign up process, you can confirm your Phone In number by placing the cursor over the Yahoo! Voice button.
Words to Know
- Voicemail: a message left in the caller’s own voice for the intended recipient to listen to later.
- Yahoo! ID: the name by which a person is known to all Yahoo! networks.
- Yahoo! Phone Out: a pre-paid Yahoo! Voice account that allows you to make calls using Messenger from your computer to any regular phone or mobile phone in over 30 countries.