Rent your own virtual mobile number | Forwarding messages

With eCall you can rent one or more virtual mobile numbers. Every incoming text message to these virtual mobile numbers will be quickly and reliably forwarded to one or more receivers.

The forwarding can be done by e-mail, text message, fax, TCP/IP or HTTP. It is possible to have the message forwarded to multiple receivers (e.g. to SMS and e-mail).

Rent your virtual mobile number

To rent a virtual mobile number online please proceed as follows:

Log in at eCall.
In the navigation on the left, under 'Account settings' -> 'Virtual mobile number' you can rent a number (at the moment only Swiss, German and French numbers). Please note there is a fee (see below) for a virtual mobile number.

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These options are available for forwarding messages

If you receive a text message on your virtual mobile number you can forward to any recipient. Available are the following options:

SMS / Text message
Voice Message (TTS)
E-mail
TCP/IP ('business' only)
HTTP/HTTPS ('business' only)
Fax ('business' only)

Set up forwarding

In your account under "Settings" > "SMS reception number" then click on "new" under "3. forward received SMS (optional)".



Under "Type" you define to which channel the SMS message will be forwarded.



References:
To prevent abuse only one virtual mobile number can be rented per account directly. To request more numbers please contact our back office +41 (0)44 787 30 70 / info@ecall.ch.

At the request of website operators like olx.ch, anibis.ch, etc. we ask you not to make a registration with one of our virtual mobile numbers. Receiving login data, passwords, security codes, etc. with our virtual mobile numbers to bypass an authentication is not allowed!

Fees
Fees for our virtual mobile numbers:

For eCall private customers

Setup fee per virtual mobile number: 75 credits (one-time charge), resp. ca. CHF 10.- / € 6.-
Service fee per virtual mobile number: 75 credits a month (charged on 1st of month) resp. ca. CHF 10.- / € 6.-
0.5 points per received text message

For customers with eCall business contract
Setup fee per virtual mobile number: CHF 10.- / € 6.- (one-time charge)
Service fee per virtual mobile number: CHF 10.- resp. € 6.- / a month (charged on 1st of month)
0.5 points per received text message

Updated on: 05/07/2021