How to Receive Phone Calls on Your PC

1. Use iCall. This software is available for your desktop or through a Web browser. It allows you to make and receive free calls. You can either purchase your own personal phone number or use one of the company's local access numbers to receive calls straight to your PC. If you're not around to take the call, the software also has a free voicemail service.
2. Use Yahoo! Voice. The service costs $2.49 per month and upwards but gives you your own personal phone number. You can pick your own area code and get free voice mail as part of the monthly package. The service is currently limited to numbers in France, the United States and the United Kingdom, so anyone phoning from outside those countries would have to pay for an international call.
3. Download SkpeIn. If you have friends or family who don't use Skype, they can still call your Skype account from a land line or cell phone using your own personalized number. Skype has numbers available in 25 different countries and people calling you from the same area code of the number you have chosen only pay for a local call. Subscriptions to the service start at $18 for three months, or $60 for a year.