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From: dgc@math.ucla.edu (David G. Cantor)
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Subject: Cellular Telephones
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Date: 7 Jun 90 14:07:35 GMT
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A friend of mine wants to have two cellular telephones in two
different cars with the same telephone number.  Of course, he will use
only one at a time.  The telco won't set this up for him.  How does he
do it?


David G. Cantor
Department of Mathematics
University of California at Los Angeles
Internet:  dgc@math.ucla.edu


[Moderator's Note: I think the only way it will work is if he is able
to convince the cellular carrier to not do its usual serial number
check as part of handling his calls. Either that, or find someone to
change the serial number on the new phone, which is illegal if the
cellular carrier is not made aware of it.  A better course of action
would be to have call forwarding on the new phone (whatever number it
is) and calls fowarded all the time to the other cell phone's number.  PT]