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6 Skype Alternatives Offer New Services: Page 9 of 12



Jangl lets you accept calls from other people without revealing your telephone number.

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Instead, you enter your party's e-mail address. Jangl assigns a temporary phone number, which you call from your registered phone number. If the e-mail address belongs to another registered Jangl user, you'll be connected. If it doesn't, you'll leave a voicemail asking for a callback to another temporary number. When the person calls, Jangl will connect you.

Two good things about this:

  1. You can be called by people who don't know your phone number -- even people you don't want to know your phone number. Jangl's temporary numbers are semi-permanent -- your callers can put them into their contacts list and use them over and over, but if you decide you don't want to hear from them any more, you can block the number or delete the contact entirely.