# Do you have multiple phone numbers? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 16, 2017, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-multiple-phone-numbers/791379 "2017-07-16T04:16:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lakai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lakai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lakai)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2017, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-multiple-phone-numbers/791379/1 "2017-07-16T04:16:32Z")
If you do, why? And what service do you use? I’ve been trying to set up a separate phone number for business calls. I have been using Google Voice, but I don’t find it to be very good at organizing contacts. It also doesn’t work with voice commands, so I can’t make calls while I’m driving. If anyone has found a good service for a second number, I’d love to hear about it. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2017, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-multiple-phone-numbers/791379/2 "2017-07-16T05:11:03Z")
Yes, both land line and mobile. ---
**Author:** ![TwoCarrotSnowman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twocarrotsnowman/32/15879_2.png) [@TwoCarrotSnowman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwoCarrotSnowman)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2017, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-multiple-phone-numbers/791379/3 "2017-07-16T17:52:09Z")
I’ve got a landline, a personal mobile number and a work mobile number. Sent from my SM-G935F using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![TwoCarrotSnowman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twocarrotsnowman/32/15879_2.png) [@TwoCarrotSnowman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwoCarrotSnowman)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2017, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-multiple-phone-numbers/791379/4 "2017-07-16T17:53:10Z")
Try an app called ‘Hushed’ for a second number. Sent from my SM-G935F using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2017, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-multiple-phone-numbers/791379/5 "2017-07-16T18:09:44Z")
I have a [del]Skype[/del] umm VoIP SIP number, and I have a hardware cell phone I tote around, and my primary client issued me a hardwired VoIP internet phone for my desk. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2017, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-multiple-phone-numbers/791379/6 "2017-07-16T18:19:23Z")
personal mobile and work-issued mobile. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2017, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-multiple-phone-numbers/791379/7 "2017-07-17T02:00:45Z")
Yes but if you want to actually get a response, use my landline. At best I check my cell phone maybe once a month. And while I’m thinking of it ---- please stop sending text messages to me landline number. It is a very old dumb wired telephone that I’ve had since 1978 and it has no idea what you have just tried to tell me. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2017, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-multiple-phone-numbers/791379/8 "2017-07-17T10:02:48Z")
I’m so old (I just got my pensioner’s bus pass) that I only have one phone. And it’s a landline. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2017, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-multiple-phone-numbers/791379/9 "2017-07-17T10:44:53Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > Yes but if you want to actually get a response, use my landline. At best I check my cell phone maybe once a month. > > And while I’m thinking of it ---- please stop sending text messages to me landline number. It is a very old dumb wired telephone that I’ve had since 1978 and it has no idea what you have just tried to tell me. What happens when you get a text message to a land line?? I have a land line (comes with my internet service. It was (pretty good) DSL but has been upgraded to fiber) I have a cell phone (usually is in my car) I have a work number (VOIP – really bothersome to get calls because I have to put on a headset. I usually don’t notice I’m getting a call (it is quite rare) that I don’t get my headset on in time) Brian ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2017, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-multiple-phone-numbers/791379/10 "2017-07-17T12:18:35Z")
> [@N9IWP](#): > > What happens when you get a text message to a land line?? On the receiving end, nothing. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2017, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-multiple-phone-numbers/791379/11 "2017-07-17T12:18:56Z")
> [@N9IWP](#): > > What happens when you get a text message to a land line?? > > Brian IME if you try to send a text to a landline, you’ll get a message back from the carrier saying the recipient is not a mobile number. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2017, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-multiple-phone-numbers/791379/12 "2017-07-17T13:39:38Z")
> [@N9IWP](#): > > What happens when you get a text message to a land line?? In our case nothing; and with a lot of the mobile plans it seems nothing happens on the senders end either. I have had several co-workers jump me about “why didn’t you respond to the texts I sent you” a couple days later so clearly they aren’t being told. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2017, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-multiple-phone-numbers/791379/13 "2017-07-17T13:43:14Z")
I accidentally sent a text to my sister’s home phone instead of her cell last week, and I got the error message back. But apparently that doesn’t always happen. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2017, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-multiple-phone-numbers/791379/14 "2017-07-17T14:03:01Z")
> [@TwoCarrotSnowman](#): > > Try an app called ‘Hushed’ for a second number. > > Sent from my SM-G935F using Tapatalk I was going to suggest [Sideline](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sideline.phone.number&hl=en). My brother and I have a rental. When it’s time to look for a new tenant, I’m the one who fields the calls so I get a number from Sideline and we put that out instead of my wireless number. It’s free to use (an ad shows on the app when you open it) and shows on my smartphone as a “Sideline call” rather than some random number so I know to grab it right away.\* When the house gets rented, I keep it alive for about a week to say, “Sorry, it’s gone,” then kill it; anybody inquiring on a listing taken down a week ago is someone I don’t want to talk to anyway. If I wanted to keep the number, I need to use it every thirty days or pay a buck a month. \*Due to the prevalence of junk calls, I have a policy of not answering anything coming in that is not in the address book. Exceptions are made if I’m expecting a call back from someone new or [del]am bored[/del] have the time and want to collect the information of the offending party to turn them in to the Do Not Call registry. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2017, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-multiple-phone-numbers/791379/15 "2017-07-17T14:04:32Z")
I have one phone number. My cell phone. I have no landline, and you do not call me at work. Call my cell and I’ll call you back when I want to talk with you. What’s up with this “being available every second of your life?” shit? ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2017, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-multiple-phone-numbers/791379/16 "2017-07-17T15:54:10Z")
I have three main numbers: home landline, cell, work number for the school. The website has a lead tracking number on it that forwards to the school number, and I will occasionally use Google Voice to send texts, so that’s another number. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2017, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-multiple-phone-numbers/791379/17 "2017-07-17T17:08:58Z")
I don’t know about you guys, but if I send a text message to a land line here it rings the landline and provides a text-to-voice translation, once you pick-up, of course. I’m not kidding. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2017, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-multiple-phone-numbers/791379/18 "2017-07-17T17:54:01Z")
Old Fogey here: I have a home land line and a work land line. I also have a cell phone (not smart phone) but it mostly spends it time turned off in my car. Its just to call my wife when I’m at the store, and when I’m on travel. It was a sad reflection on my age that when I say the BBQ pit complaint about the new phone breaking my first thought was [one of these](http://www.jcpenney.com/p/cortelco-itt-2500-v-desk-corded-telephone-with-volume-control/ppr5007166734?pTmplType=regular&country=US¤cy=USD&selectedSKUId=68328470018&selectedLotId=6832847&fromBag=true&quantity=1&utm_medium=cse&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=telephones&utm_content=68328470018&cid=cse%7Cgoogle%7C004%20%2d%20home%20furn%20leisure%7Ctelephones_68328470018&gclid=Cj0KCQjwwLHLBRDEARIsAN1A1Q6m4iqT7T6nCRjhHaPztyo0gaLWePNa_DFRX81IwYXVcQPwv_482AsaAkQ9EALw_wcB&kwid=productads-adid%5E45810122978-device%5Ec-plaid%5E81646490018-sku%5E68328470018-adType%5EPLA). ☹ ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2017, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-multiple-phone-numbers/791379/19 "2017-07-17T18:28:12Z")
I have a home landline and a personal cell. And a landline at work, of course, but that’s just for work. ---
**Author:** ![Dereknocue67](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6de8d8/32.png) [@Dereknocue67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dereknocue67)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2017, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-multiple-phone-numbers/791379/20 "2017-07-18T09:04:46Z")
Yes, I have two phone numbers. My actual phone number and a phone number I use when I have to register on some web sites. It’s the same number except I transpose the last two digits. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-multiple-phone-numbers/791379.md?page=2)