Cell Phone Forwarding
Apr 23, 2007, 1:50 pm
#1
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Cell Phone Forwarding
When I left the US I forwarded my GSM phone to my corporate voice mail. So far so good.
Then we got new phone numbers at work.
So I turned on my US cell phone down here in Oz (9,300 miles from home) and, not surprisingly enough, nothing was working - couldn't connect to the network, etc, etc. Also not surprising, given the whole AT&T/Cingular merger thing.
So I called Cingular and they fiddled around for around 10 seconds - and then my phone connected to the network.
In Australia.
Ten seconds.
Then I changed the forwarding on my phone and the nice Cingular lady in Virginia tried the forwarding again and it worked.
Two seconds.
From Oz to the US.
That is so cool.
Then we got new phone numbers at work.
So I turned on my US cell phone down here in Oz (9,300 miles from home) and, not surprisingly enough, nothing was working - couldn't connect to the network, etc, etc. Also not surprising, given the whole AT&T/Cingular merger thing.
So I called Cingular and they fiddled around for around 10 seconds - and then my phone connected to the network.
In Australia.
Ten seconds.
Then I changed the forwarding on my phone and the nice Cingular lady in Virginia tried the forwarding again and it worked.
Two seconds.
From Oz to the US.
That is so cool.
Apr 25, 2007, 8:20 pm
#2
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Lower Merion Township, PA, (an inner-ring suburb to the Socialist Workers City/State of Philadelphia, PA)
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You should be able to do this just as easily with a land line. Verizon in the US offers Ultra Forward service, for 5 or 6 USD per month. The 'Ultra' in this, as opposed to plain Call Forwarding, means you can call an 800# (or non-800 in some areas), enter your landline phone number, some pass codes, and either turn on or turn off the forwarding. You also can change the forward to number.
And, almost all PBX phone systems (do they still refer to them that way?) have this feature. But it's often disabled to prevent abuse.
And, almost all PBX phone systems (do they still refer to them that way?) have this feature. But it's often disabled to prevent abuse.
Apr 25, 2007, 11:33 pm
#4
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But I certainly share Tierflyer's enthusiam for the way it can work!
Apr 26, 2007, 12:45 am
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I am paying Verizon $4.95 a month to have my land lines forwarded - a total ripoff but not surprising from Verizon.
I have to pay the minutes for my cell phone calls forwarded, but I've got a large(ish) plan so it's pretty invisible since I'm making <50% the calls I used to make.
I just thought the part that was cool was that the network spanned 9K miles in less than a second.
I have to pay the minutes for my cell phone calls forwarded, but I've got a large(ish) plan so it's pretty invisible since I'm making <50% the calls I used to make.
I just thought the part that was cool was that the network spanned 9K miles in less than a second.
