Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!linac!att!pacbell.com!lll-winken!telecom-request From: aem@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (a.e.mossberg) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Remote Call Forwarding / Transfer Device Needed Message-ID: Date: 26 Mar 91 04:24:12 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Reply-To: aem@mthvax.cs.miami.edu Organization: University of Miami Department of Mathematics & Computer Science Lines: 32 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 241, Message 12 of 13 In the Moderator writes (in response to an article by David Lesher): > [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] No, I'm afraid you're wrong, unless the SB ads are lying. The ads on the TV specifically claim that "wherever you are you can forward your calls to" so I suspect that David is right, that you can call in and get your number "pulled" to where you're calling from. I believe that the charge was something like $7.50 per month, presumably in addition to the regular charge for call forwarding ($4.50 month?) aem@mthvax.cs.miami.edu [Moderator's Note: Well, I think that is wonderful. I'm surprised they beat Illinois Bell to it. IBT thought about this for awhile, deemed it to be 'problematic' and put it on the back burner. Now that SWBT has it going, maybe the other Bell telcos will follow close behind, as they usually do whenever one starts a new innovation. PAT]