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What are Hostgator Business Plan Toll-Free Number Limits, Countries Supported? Many webmaster around the world don’t know what is toll-free number provided with Hostgator web hosting buisness plan.
A toll-free number is a special telephone number, in that the called party is charged the cost of the calls by the telephone carrier, instead of the calling party. A toll-free number is assigned from a special dialing prefix range (also known as area code) such as 0800 where all calls to those prefixes are free to the caller.
The Business plan of Hostgator web hosting ($25 OFF Coupon) provides a free toll-free number for your web site and business. Total number of minutes included per month are 100min and beyond that 4.9 Cents is charged per min. By default, you’ll be able to receive calls from US callers only. You can enable calls from Canada in your control panel, but will be billed 6.9 cents per minute for all calls from Canada due to the increased costs of providing service there. This service is provided and supported by Voipo for new HostGator clients. Toll-Free numbers issued must be called at least once every 30 days. Toll-free numbers with 0 calls in a 30 day period will be considered inactive and disconnected. If you cancel your hosting package with HostGator or switch to a plan other than the business plan, your toll-free number will be disconnected unless you contact VOIPo to change to a paid service plan prior to the HostGator cancellation.
855 phone numbers are the newly released business toll free numbers. This is the chance for many companies to promote themselves and increase their sales.
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