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- From: stevef@wrq.com (Steve Forrette)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Hunt Groups
- Message-ID: <telecom13.21.10@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 02:15:55 GMT
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- Organization: Walker Richer & Quinn, Inc., Seattle, WA
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 13, Issue 21, Message 10 of 13
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- In article <telecom13.14.4@eecs.nwu.edu> TERRY@spcvxa.spc.edu (Terry
- Kennedy) writes:
-
- > However, the various call forward functions will work across
- > prefixes, or across switches if desired. So the subscriber could order
- > call forward on busy (or on busy/no answer) and then set whatever form
- > of hunt group up that he wanted. This could be done either with
- > customer-selected for- warding (the kind usually explained in the
- > phone book, where the customer sets the forwarding, or with fixed
- > forwarding, where it is set up in the switch and the customer can't
- > change it).
-
- One problem with using call-forward-on-busy as a creative way to
- create hunt groups of more than two lines is that many telcos restrict
- it to handle no more than one forwarded call at a time. This
- restriction may also be placed on Remote Call Forwarding numbers and
- regular (immediate) call forwarding.
-
- With US West in Washington State, RCF costs around $18 per month plus
- message units, and can handle only one call at a time. You can
- purchase additional "circuits" for $18 per month each. But, if you
- can find somewhere to terminate a loop, you can get an unmeasured
- business line for around $32 per month, add call forwarding for around
- $4. Then, for $36, you get up to 20 concurrent calls forwarded with
- no message units. The 20 call maximum was what call forwarding was
- configured for on my switch - the person at the business office had to
- check this out when I asked, and I got the impression that different
- switches had it set to different values. Pacific Bell on the other
- hand, sets all of their switches to the same value: they only allow
- one concurrent call for regular call forwarding.
-
- Also, if you want to have a busy or no-answer forwarding go to a
- number that's on a different switch, it is technically a different
- feature: "busy call forwarding extended." It was not widely available
- until a couple of years ago. Since this feature is a necessary part
- of the telco's own voicemail offering, it is now magically available
- most everywhere now. But some switches may not yet support it, so
- busy-forwarding may be restricted to the local switch.
-
-
- Steve Forrette, stevef@wrq.com
-