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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 14:57:02 -0500
- From: Monty Solomon <monty@proponent.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Moving and Trying to Keep Phone Number
- Message-ID: <telecom12.863.8@eecs.nwu.edu>
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- From: borden@head-cfa.harvard.edu (Dave Borden)
- Subject: Re: Moving and Trying to Keep Phone Number - Need Advice
- Date: 19 Nov 92 18:57:10 GMT
- Reply-To: borden@m5.harvard.edu
- Organization: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA, USA
-
-
- In article <1992Nov19.172109.9888@m5.harvard.edu> borden@m5.harvard.
- edu writes:
-
- > I'm trying to find out if I have any options for keeping my current
- > phone number if I move out of town. My situation is: I live in
- > Central Square, Cambridge. I really want to find another apartment,
- > and it has to be cheap, which makes it harder to find something in
- > Cambridge. I have a freelance business (I play piano), and there are
- > hundreds of flyers and cards out there with my Cambridge phone number
- > on them. I need to keep this number active in some sense, for an
- > indefinite period of time, maybe permanently. New England Telephone
- > will only put a message on the number for a few months, then they
- > recirculate the number; to get a Cambridge number in anyplace other
- > than Cambridge is extremely expensive.
-
- > So the question is: does anyone know a way to keep a phone number
- > without maintaining a residence? Thanks in advance for any help you
- > are able to give.
-
- I've been able to answer my own question since I posted this. In case
- anyone is interested, here's the answer: There's a service offered
- through New England Telephone's business service office (737-7000),
- which is also available to residential customers, called Remote Call
- Forwarding. This allows one to keep one's old phone number without
- the phone line, and have the calls forwarded to a new phone number,
- any number you want. You pay $41.54 for installation, $16.97 per
- month for the service, and for the phone line usage, whatever the call
- would normally cost, from your old number to your new number. For
- example, if you Cambridge to Somerville, as I might do, and someone
- calls you at your old Cambridge number, you would pay the local
- message units charge on their call.
-
- Hope this is of use to someone out there.
-
-
- Dave Borden borden@m5.harvard.edu
-
-