Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!ucsd!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: john@bovine.ati.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Follow Me Roaming Response/Improvements Message-ID: <15770@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 2 Jan 91 08:17:54 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: John Higdon Organization: Green Hills and Cows Lines: 34 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 5, Message 5 of 11 Douglas Scott Reuben writes: > A while back I asked that anyone who has experienced unusually long > delays with GTE's Follow Me Roaming to send some mail, so that I could > find out if the problem was not specific to me. I had a problem with FMR after my last trip to LA. While in southern California, I daily set FMR on my handheld except on the day that I drove home. Since I was going to be on the road, it didn't seem like the thing to do. Since FMR cancels automatically at midnight each day, I gave it no further thought. I got back to the Bay Area and after a few days had gone by had a situation where I needed to page someone and have them return the call to my handheld. I waited and waited for the return call. Finally, my pager went off and the number was that of the person I paged. He told me that he had tried to call, but got the "away from the vehicle" recording. I passed it off. The next day, the same thing happened with someone else. I asked, "Was the recorded voice male or female?" "Male", was the response. Well, the GTE Mobilnet (San Francisco) recordings all feature a female voice. You guessed it--FMR was still in effect nearly a week after I had left LA. The fix was simple: dial '*720' which cancels forwarding. For all I know, it's still up in the LA system. It might be a good idea for cellular providers to append their system names to any recordings. It might reveal a stuck FMR or other unintended situation more readily. John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@bovine.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !