AI receptionist coverage by country: phone calls, texts and WhatsApp
Frontivo.io serves businesses in every country, and your AI receptionist answers each customer in their own language. Website chat and email work everywhere, and Instagram and Messenger will too once they open. Phone calls, texts and WhatsApp depend on a phone number, and this page shows exactly what each country gets.
Table read from our phone provider once a day · Page updated October 9, 2026
Connect your Instagram or Facebook page and your AI answers DMs everywhere Meta's apps work. WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger open soon, once Meta's approval is through: reserve WhatsApp Only, Instagram Only, Messenger Only or Growth at no charge.
Forward your existing business email to your AI's private address. Customers keep emailing the address they know, and the reply comes in the same thread.
Forwarding is a setting from your phone company and works in every country. Customers keep calling the number they know, and your AI answers the calls you miss.
These three run on a phone number, and what a number can do is set by each country's regulator and phone companies. Here is how each one works, then the table shows your country.
Phone calls
Almost every Frontivo.io number takes calls, so the question is mostly how you get one. In the few countries marked No calling numbers, the numbers we can get only text, so forward your own line or use a US number for calls.
In seconds in the US, Canada, Puerto Rico and a few others: click Get my phone number on the Phone calls card.
After documents in most other countries: the regulator wants your business registration and address first. The card asks for them and connects the number automatically once approved, usually in 1-3 business days.
With a monthly fee where numbers cost more than $5 a month to keep: the card shows the exact monthly local-number fee and asks you to confirm; the number is yours the moment you do. In the few countries where a number costs a lot more, our team confirms the price with you first, usually within 1-3 business days.
Anywhere else: one click gives you a US (+1) number in seconds. Forward your own line to it (check your plan allows forwarding abroad), or let customers abroad call it directly.
Move your existing number in (so the AI answers on it directly) in the countries marked in the table. US numbers move automatically; the others sign a short form.
Texting depends on the number type. Local numbers in many countries take calls only; mobile numbers text.
The table shows which number types text in each country. When you want texts, the card picks a texting number for you.
US numbers need a one-time texting approval from the US phone companies before the AI can text. Fill in your business details on the Text messages card and we submit it for you.
Two-way texting (customers texting you back) works with a number from the customer's own country. Texts to the US and Canada need a US or Canadian number.
No texting number in your country? Use WhatsApp for messages instead, or take a US number for customers in North America. WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger open soon, once Meta's approval is through: reserve WhatsApp Only, Instagram Only, Messenger Only or Growth at no charge.
Works in every country where WhatsApp itself works, on your own number or a Frontivo.io number. WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger open soon, once Meta's approval is through: reserve WhatsApp Only, Instagram Only, Messenger Only or Growth at no charge.
Your own number: click Use my existing number on the WhatsApp card. WhatsApp sends a 6-digit code to that number by text or call; type it on the card. Works even where we sell no numbers.
A Frontivo.io number: click Turn on WhatsApp and it is set up on your number, usually within a few minutes. Any number in the table can be used.
Your number can only be on WhatsApp in one place. If it is on the WhatsApp or WhatsApp Business app today, you delete that WhatsApp account first. That erases its chats and their backup and you leave your groups, so export the chats you want to keep first (Export chat) - the guide shows how. Afterwards you can't use the number in the WhatsApp app, and every WhatsApp message to it goes to your AI and Inbox.
WhatsApp is blocked in China, North Korea, Iran and Syria, so it can't work there on any number.
Type your country, or filter by what you need. Each row shows how you get a number there, what it can do, and the likely monthly local-number fee. You confirm the exact fee before any number is set up.
countries
43
with texts
25
with WhatsApp
43
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Phone numbers by country: calls, what a call minute counts as, texts, WhatsApp and moving your number in
Country
Frontivo.io number
Phone calls
1 call minute uses
Text messages
WhatsApp
Move your number in
ArgentinaAR
After documents
Local and toll-free numbers
About $11/month number fee, you confirm it first
Yes
Local and toll-free
1 minute
Standard
Calls only
Use WhatsApp, or a US number for texts
Yes
Your number or a Frontivo.io one
Not available
Forward your calls instead
AustraliaAU
After documents
Local, mobile and toll-free numbers
Yes
Local, mobile and toll-free
1 minute
Standard
Yes
Mobile
Yes
Your number or a Frontivo.io one
Yes
With a signed form
AustriaAT
After documents
Local, mobile and toll-free numbers
Yes
Local, mobile and toll-free
1 minute
Standard
Yes
Mobile
Yes
Your number or a Frontivo.io one
Yes
With a signed form
BelgiumBE
After documents
Mobile and toll-free numbers
Yes
Mobile and toll-free
1 minute
Standard
Yes
Mobile
Yes
Your number or a Frontivo.io one
Yes
With a signed form
BeninBJ
After documents
Mobile numbers
About $36/month number fee, you confirm it first
Yes
Mobile
3 minutes
Costs more to receive
Calls only
Use WhatsApp, or a US number for texts
Yes
Your number or a Frontivo.io one
Not available
Forward your calls instead
BrazilBR
After documents
Local numbers
Yes
Local
1 minute
Standard
Calls only
Use WhatsApp, or a US number for texts
Yes
Your number or a Frontivo.io one
Yes
With a signed form
CanadaCA
In seconds
Local and toll-free numbers
Yes
Local and toll-free
1 minute
Standard
Yes
Local and toll-free
Yes
Your number or a Frontivo.io one
Yes
With a signed form
ChileCL
After documents
Local numbers
About $10/month number fee, you confirm it first
Yes
Local
1 minute
Standard
Yes
Local
Yes
Your number or a Frontivo.io one
Not available
Forward your calls instead
ColombiaCO
After documents
Local and toll-free numbers
About $19/month number fee, you confirm it first
Yes
Local and toll-free
2 minutes
Costs more to receive
Calls only
Use WhatsApp, or a US number for texts
Yes
Your number or a Frontivo.io one
Not available
Forward your calls instead
CroatiaHR
After documents
Toll-free numbers
Yes
Toll-free
3 minutes
Costs more to receive
Calls only
Use WhatsApp, or a US number for texts
Yes
Your number or a Frontivo.io one
Not available
Forward your calls instead
CzechiaCZ
After documents
Local, mobile and toll-free numbers
Yes
Local and toll-free
1 minute
Standard
Yes
Mobile
Yes
Your number or a Frontivo.io one
Yes
With a signed form
DenmarkDK
After documents
Mobile numbers
About $20/month number fee, you confirm it first
Yes
Mobile
1 minute
Standard
Yes
Mobile
Yes
Your number or a Frontivo.io one
Yes
With a signed form
EcuadorEC
Team confirms price
We email you the price first, 1-3 business days
Local numbers
About $45/month number fee, you confirm it first
Yes
Local
1 minute
Standard
Calls only
Use WhatsApp, or a US number for texts
Yes
Your number or a Frontivo.io one
Not available
Forward your calls instead
EstoniaEE
After documents
Local, mobile and toll-free numbers
Yes
Local, mobile and toll-free
1 minute
Standard
Yes
Mobile
Yes
Your number or a Frontivo.io one
Not available
Forward your calls instead
FinlandFI
After documents
Mobile and toll-free numbers
Yes
Mobile and toll-free
1 minute
Standard
Yes
Mobile
Yes
Your number or a Frontivo.io one
Yes
With a signed form
FranceFR
After documents
Local numbers
Yes
Local
1 minute
Standard
Yes
Local
Yes
Your number or a Frontivo.io one
Yes
With a signed form
GermanyDE
After documents
Local and mobile numbers
Yes
Local and mobile
1 minute
Standard
Yes
Mobile
Yes
Your number or a Frontivo.io one
Yes
With a signed form
Hong Kong SAR ChinaHK
After documents
Toll-free numbers
Yes
Toll-free
2 minutes
Costs more to receive
Calls only
Use WhatsApp, or a US number for texts
Yes
Your number or a Frontivo.io one
Not available
Forward your calls instead
HungaryHU
After documents
Mobile numbers
No calling numbers
-
Yes
Mobile
Yes
Your number or a Frontivo.io one
Not available
Forward your calls instead
IndonesiaID
After documents
Toll-free numbers
Yes
Toll-free
3 minutes
Costs more to receive
Calls only
Use WhatsApp, or a US number for texts
Yes
Your number or a Frontivo.io one
Not available
Forward your calls instead
IrelandIE
After documents
Local numbers
Yes
Local
1 minute
Standard
Calls only
Use WhatsApp, or a US number for texts
Yes
Your number or a Frontivo.io one
Yes
With a signed form
IsraelIL
In seconds
Local, mobile and toll-free numbers
About $8/month number fee, you confirm it first
Yes
Local, mobile and toll-free
1 minute
Standard
Yes
Mobile
Yes
Your number or a Frontivo.io one
Not available
Forward your calls instead
ItalyIT
Team confirms price
We email you the price first, 1-3 business days
Mobile numbers
About $59/month number fee, you confirm it first
No calling numbers
-
Yes
Mobile
Yes
Your number or a Frontivo.io one
Yes
With a signed form
JapanJP
After documents
Local and toll-free numbers
Yes
Local and toll-free
1 minute
Standard
Calls only
Use WhatsApp, or a US number for texts
Yes
Your number or a Frontivo.io one
Yes
With a signed form
LithuaniaLT
After documents
Mobile numbers
No calling numbers
-
Yes
Mobile
Yes
Your number or a Frontivo.io one
Not available
Forward your calls instead
LuxembourgLU
After documents
Local and toll-free numbers
Yes
Local and toll-free
1 minute
Standard
Calls only
Use WhatsApp, or a US number for texts
Yes
Your number or a Frontivo.io one
Yes
With a signed form
MalaysiaMY
After documents
Local and toll-free numbers
Yes
Local and toll-free
3 minutes
Costs more to receive
Calls only
Use WhatsApp, or a US number for texts
Yes
Your number or a Frontivo.io one
Not available
Forward your calls instead
MexicoMX
After documents
Local, mobile and toll-free numbers
About $9/month number fee, you confirm it first
Yes
Local, mobile and toll-free
1 minute
Standard
Yes
Mobile
Yes
Your number or a Frontivo.io one
Yes
With a signed form
NetherlandsNL
After documents
Mobile numbers
About $11/month number fee, you confirm it first
Yes
Mobile
1 minute
Standard
Yes
Mobile
Yes
Your number or a Frontivo.io one
Yes
With a signed form
New ZealandNZ
After documents
Local and toll-free numbers
Yes
Local and toll-free
1 minute
Standard
Calls only
Use WhatsApp, or a US number for texts
Yes
Your number or a Frontivo.io one
Yes
With a signed form
PanamaPA
After documents
Local numbers
About $11/month number fee, you confirm it first
Yes
Local
1 minute
Standard
Calls only
Use WhatsApp, or a US number for texts
Yes
Your number or a Frontivo.io one
Not available
Forward your calls instead
PeruPE
After documents
Toll-free numbers
Yes
Toll-free
3 minutes
Costs more to receive
Calls only
Use WhatsApp, or a US number for texts
Yes
Your number or a Frontivo.io one
Not available
Forward your calls instead
PhilippinesPH
After documents
Local, mobile and toll-free numbers
About $20/month number fee, you confirm it first
Yes
Local and toll-free
3 minutes
Costs more to receive
Yes
Mobile
Yes
Your number or a Frontivo.io one
Not available
Forward your calls instead
Puerto RicoPR
In seconds
Local numbers
Yes
Local
1 minute
Standard
Yes
Local
Yes
Your number or a Frontivo.io one
Yes
With a signed form
RomaniaRO
After documents
Local and toll-free numbers
Yes
Local and toll-free
1 minute
Standard
Calls only
Use WhatsApp, or a US number for texts
Yes
Your number or a Frontivo.io one
Yes
With a signed form
SlovakiaSK
After documents
Toll-free numbers
Yes
Toll-free
3 minutes
Costs more to receive
Calls only
Use WhatsApp, or a US number for texts
Yes
Your number or a Frontivo.io one
Not available
Forward your calls instead
South AfricaZA
After documents
Local and mobile numbers
Yes
Local and mobile
1 minute
Standard
Yes
Mobile
Yes
Your number or a Frontivo.io one
Yes
With a signed form
SwedenSE
After documents
Mobile numbers
No calling numbers
-
Yes
Mobile
Yes
Your number or a Frontivo.io one
Yes
With a signed form
SwitzerlandCH
After documents
Local and mobile numbers
Yes
Local
1 minute
Standard
Yes
Mobile
Yes
Your number or a Frontivo.io one
Yes
With a signed form
ThailandTH
After documents
Local, mobile and toll-free numbers
About $29/month number fee, you confirm it first
Yes
Local, mobile and toll-free
1 minute
Standard
Yes
Local and mobile
Yes
Your number or a Frontivo.io one
Not available
Forward your calls instead
TunisiaTN
Team confirms price
We email you the price first, 1-3 business days
Local numbers
About $156/month number fee, you confirm it first
Yes
Local
4 minutes
Costs more to receive
Calls only
Use WhatsApp, or a US number for texts
Yes
Your number or a Frontivo.io one
Not available
Forward your calls instead
United KingdomGB
After documents
Local, mobile and toll-free numbers
Yes
Local, mobile and toll-free
1 minute
Standard
Yes
Mobile
Yes
Your number or a Frontivo.io one
Yes
With a signed form
United StatesUS
In seconds
Local and toll-free numbers
Yes
Local and toll-free
1 minute
Standard
Yes, after approval
Local and toll-free, after a one-time US texting approval
Yes
Your number or a Frontivo.io one
Yes
Automatic
43 countries. Keeping your own number and forwarding its calls works in every country, whether or not it is in this table. Website chat and email work everywhere; Instagram and Messenger will too once they open.
In seconds: no documents needed. After documents: the card asks for your business registration and address first. Team confirms price: a person checks the price with you by email before connecting it. Local numbers belong to a city or area, mobile and national numbers work country-wide, and toll-free numbers are free for callers.
"1 call minute uses" is how many of your plan's AI voice minutes one minute of a call to a Frontivo.io number from that country counts as: 1 in most countries, 2 or more where phone companies charge much more to receive a call. Website voice always counts as 1.
Not sure which option is right for you? The help article walks through the four ways to use a number, and getting your number has the step-by-step for each card.
FAQ
Common questions about countries
Straight answers about where calls, texts and WhatsApp work, and what to do when your country isn't in the table.
All of them. Website chat and email work in any country, and Instagram and Messenger will too once they open. Your AI receptionist answers each customer in their own language. Phone calls and texts need a phone number, and the table on this page shows, country by country, whether you get a Frontivo.io number in seconds, after a business-documents step, or a US number instead.
Every country. Where Frontivo.io sells numbers (the table), your AI answers on a local number. Everywhere else you get a US (+1) number in a few seconds, and in every country you can keep your own number and forward its calls to your Frontivo.io number - forwarding is a setting from your phone company.
The countries marked Yes in the Text messages column. Texting depends on the number type: in many countries local numbers take calls only, while mobile numbers text. US numbers text after a one-time approval from the US phone companies, which we submit for you. Where no texting number exists, use WhatsApp for messages or a US number for texts to North America.
Every country where WhatsApp itself works - that is everywhere except China, North Korea, Iran and Syria, where WhatsApp is blocked. You can run it on your own number (no Frontivo.io number needed) or on any Frontivo.io number from the table.
The telecom regulator there requires proof of a business before a number can be issued - usually the business registration and a local address. Click Get my phone number, upload the documents from the Phone calls card, and the number is connected automatically once they are approved, usually in 1-3 business days. There is nothing to pay for this step.
Our phone provider doesn't sell numbers there yet. The Phone calls card offers a US (+1) number instead - one click, ready in seconds - and your AI answers calls and texts on it. Use WhatsApp on your own number for messages, and website chat for your site. WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger open soon, once Meta's approval is through: reserve WhatsApp Only, Instagram Only, Messenger Only or Growth at no charge. Forwarding your own line to the US number works if your phone plan allows international forwarding; check what a minute costs first.
In the countries marked Yes in the last column. US numbers move automatically from the Phone calls card; the other countries sign a short form and the move takes 1-6 weeks. Elsewhere, keep the number with your phone company and forward its calls - customers notice no difference.
Usually not. Plans with calls or texts include one Frontivo.io number, and a US or Canadian number never costs extra. In many other countries, including the UK, Australia, Japan and most of Europe, the number is included in your plan too. Where numbers cost more than $5 a month to keep, the number has a monthly local-number fee (for example $20 a month for a local number in the Philippines), charged once a month with any extra usage. The fee is for keeping the number, not a charge per call, so it's the same when you forward your existing line to it. You see the exact amount on the Phone calls card and confirm it before the number is set up. The Frontivo.io number column shows the likely fee under each country, and Team confirms price for the few countries where a person checks it with you before connecting the number. Call minutes and texts also count differently by country: see the 1 call minute uses column and how texts are counted.
The number is included in your plan, with no fee, in: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Czechia, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Romania, South Africa, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States. These countries have a monthly local-number fee, which you see and confirm on the card before anything is bought: Argentina $11, Barbados $36, Benin $36, Chile $10, Colombia $19, Denmark $20, Grenada $36, Guinea $36, Israel $8, Mexico $9, Netherlands $11, Panama $11, Philippines $20, Thailand $29. Numbers cost a lot more in Algeria (about $43), Ecuador (about $45), Italy (about $59), Namibia (about $43), Sudan (about $169), Tunisia (about $156), Uganda (about $52), so our team confirms the fee with you by email first. For a country not listed here, the Phone calls card shows whether there's a fee before you click. In every country, WhatsApp on your own number has no fee, and a US (+1) number is included in your plan. The full table is at Where Frontivo.io works.
Yes, if your country has one. Your AI answers calls on your Frontivo.io number, so forwarding your existing number still needs that number - and the fee is for keeping it, not a charge per call. It's the same whether your callers are local or abroad, and however many calls you get. With a local Frontivo.io number, callers in your country make a normal local call, and forwarding to it is usually charged as a local call on your phone plan. Two ways to have no fee: 1) Get a US number instead on the Phone calls card - it's included in your plan, but callers in your country pay international rates to ring it, and forwarding to it is an international call on your phone plan. 2) WhatsApp on your own number - your AI answers WhatsApp messages on the number you already have, with no Frontivo.io number needed. In countries with no fee (see Where Frontivo.io works), forwarding costs nothing extra from us.
It is read from our phone provider once a day, so it shows what can actually be bought today. Countries appear as the provider adds them. If a country changes between checks, the Phone calls card in your dashboard always shows the live answer when you click Get my phone number.
Website chat works in every country in about 15 minutes. Add calls and texts when you're ready. WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger open soon, once Meta's approval is through: reserve WhatsApp Only, Instagram Only, Messenger Only or Growth at no charge. No credit card required.