Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!agate!telecom-request From: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Remote Call Forwarding / Transfer Device Needed Message-ID: Date: 25 Mar 91 23:46:31 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Reply-To: David Lesher Organization: NRK Clinic for habitual NetNews abusers Lines: 21 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 239, Message 2 of 9 > I would like to have my calls forwarded to me to wherever I am at > customer sites. SBT has an ad in this Sunday's Herald extolling Remote Call Forwarding. As I read it, this is remotely programmable call forwarding. I didn't read the whole pitch, but I think it is really "Follow Me" forwarding. I don't know if you can remotely 'push' calls dialed to XXX to now appear at YYY, when you are at ZZZ. I suspect you can only 'pull' calls to your present location. [Moderator's Note: If it is the same Remote Call Forwarding we have here, (and I suspect it is) then it is NOT remotely programmable. In actuality, it is a line which terminates in a CO of your choice somewhere, and calls to that number are automatically forwarded to the phone number you specified when you ordered the service. You can NOT change it from hour to hour or day to day. Telco will charge you for a line (even though it terminates right in the CO and goes no-where, and they will charge you at DDD rates for each call forwarded. Maybe SWBT has a new product as you describe it, but I don't think so. PAT]