{"id":2683,"date":"2016-03-17T01:45:38","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T16:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2016-03-17\/2683"},"modified":"2016-03-17T01:45:38","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T16:45:38","slug":"looking-for-a-us-based-phone-number-for-my-japanese-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2016-03-17\/2683","title":{"rendered":"Looking for a US-Based Phone Number for my Japanese iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<p>I'm looking for recommendations on getting <span class='nobr'>a US<\/span> phone number on\nmy Japanese cell phone, via VOIP. <span class='nobr'>I currently<\/span> have such <span class='nobr'>a thing<\/span> with\nSkype, but their app and feature design are gratuitously stupid...\njust <i>amazingly<\/i> dumb.<\/p>\n\n<p>My needs are simple... I pay a fee to get <span class='nobr'>a US<\/span>-based phone number,\nand when someone dials that number, it rings on an app on my iPhone. <span class='nobr'>And using<\/span> that same app, <span class='nobr'>I can dial<\/span> out. Voice messages <span class='nobr'>a bonus.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p>I'd like to use Vonage's app (I've been <span class='nobr'>a normal<\/span> Vonage customer for\n<span class='nobr'>a decade<\/span>), but it doesn't work with Japanese phones.<\/p>\n\n<p>Recommendations?<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I'm looking for recommendations on getting a US phone number on my Japanese cell phone, via VOIP. I currently have such a thing with Skype, but their app and feature design are gratuitously stupid... just amazingly dumb.<\/p> <p>My needs are simple... I pay a fee to get a US-based phone number, and when someone dials that number, it rings on an app on my iPhone. And using that same app, I can dial out. Voice messages a bonus.<\/p> <p>I'd like to use Vonage's app (I've been a normal Vonage customer for a decade), but it doesn't work with Japanese phones.<\/p> [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}