Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Sat, 25 May 91 01:51 PDT From: John Higdon Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Follow Me Roaming - a Few Corrections Reply-To: John Higdon Message-ID: Organization: Green Hills and Cows Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu 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 398, Message 1 of 10 Lines: 33 Douglas Scott Reuben writes: > The main problem which I have with FMR, and one that I've written to > GTE/FMR (and posted to the Digest) about is post-midnight activations. This is the only problem I have ever had with FMR recently -- but for a different reason. A couple of days after returning from a trip to LA, I was standing next to my bike in front of the Federal Building in San Francisco. I needed some info for a records search, so I dug out my handheld. After paging the person who had the info, I waited (and waited) for the return call. I tried again. Finally, MY pager went off showing a number which I called. It turned out to be the person I was paging who was very annoyed. "If you are going to page someone and direct them to call your handheld, the least you could do is turn it on." It was on. And it seemed to work fine. Suddenly I had a thought. "Was the voice that told you the phone was unavailable male or female?" It was male. My home system, GTE San Francisco, uses a female voice. What on earth was going on? It turns out that the FMR activated days before in Los Angeles had failed to deactivate automatically. The voice announcing my unavailability was coming from PacTel Los Angeles. No problem; I used the "clear call forwarding" code. One more thing to check when returning from a trip! John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@zygot.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !