Online voicemail for those without a phone #?

Question

A 1-800 service where people can call and leave a message on a regular phone or cell, which I can listen to on the Internet and call back using a calling card? Cheap or free.

Answer 1

You can easily do this with CallCentric VoIP service.  You don't even have to have any VoIP equipment to do it.  

You just configure your account to have all calls to your Toll Free number to be forwarded to your landline, cell, or redirect calls to your account VoiceMail (voicemail is a free add-on).  A Toll Free number only costs $3.95/month + 2.9 cent/min for incoming calls.  If the calls go directly to Voice Mail, then there is no extra charge for that.  Just set your account to forward an email with a copy to your voice mails to your email account.  Or, listen to the Voice Mails through your online account.  If the calls are forwarded to your landline, or cell, then standard LD rate of 1.98 cent/min applies for the forwarded call.

Then, for outbound calling, just set your account to enable Calling Card access.  If there is a local area calling card gateway in your area, then there is no access fee and all outbound calls are only charged at 1.98 cent/min to anywhere in USA/Canada, and many parts of Europe and Asia.  If there is no local Calling Card gateway in your area, you can create your own, by purchasing a local area code phone number for only $1.95/month + 1.5 cent/min incoming calls.  Then set that number to be used as a Calling Card gateway.  Now, by calling your own personal calling card gateway number, you can make long distance calls using your home phone or cell and only pay 1.5 cent/min access + 1.98 cent/min LD for a total cost of 3.48 cents/min.

3.48 cent/min is still a good rate for having your own personal local calling card gateway.

Answer 2

Your probably not going to find one that offers 800 service for free, but  you can find free numbers all over the place with voicemail and all

I recommend K7, you'll get a number you can use for unlimited voice mail and inbound faxing.  You can get your voicemails emailed to you or you can go to the website to listen to them.  The website only holds the last 10 (or 20, I forget) so I like having them emailed, no limits.  All this works for inbound faxing too.

http://www.k7.net