For an additional fee, you may assign up to five virtual phone numbers to each vessel phone line (10 total). Each of these numbers can be set up with a different country code and area/city code, allowing people on shore within those regions to avoid international or long-distance charges when they call the vessel.
To set up virtual numbers, contact KVH’s Satellite Airtime & Product Activation department. See Contacting the Satellite Airtime and Product Activation Department.
NOTE: Each virtual number you set up will forward calls to a specific phone line and jack on the CommBox-ACU (whichever line you requested during setup). Only phones that are connected to that jack will ring when someone dials the virtual number.
In the example shown here, the vessel’s company has offices in Tokyo and Melbourne. Therefore, they set up Japanese and Australian virtual numbers so that their employees on shore can call the vessel without running up an international phone bill.
Virtual Numbers (Example)