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- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 01:11:40 GMT
- From: stevef@wrq.com (Steve Forrette)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Cellular Providers Charge Air-Time Forwarding to Land Line
- Message-ID: <telecom12.691.6@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: Walker Richer & Quinn, Inc., Seattle, WA
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 691, Message 6 of 13
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- In article <telecom12.677.5@eecs.nwu.edu> infmx!johng@uunet.UU.NET
- (John Galloway) writes:
-
- > I was very disappointed to find that both Cellular-One and GTE charge
- > normal air time rates for calls that are made to your cellular number,
- > when you have your number forwarded to a land line. This seems like a
- > real rip off since in this case the only resources being used are the
- > land line connected switches, which likely have plenty of bandwidth,
- > there is no cellular communication occuring (that I can see anyway, am
- > I mistaken?).
-
- Cellular One of Seattle does not do this. When I lived in California
- and asked for an explanation for this practice, I was told that
- forwarded calls actually go "over the air," thus the charge. I guess
- they use a different type of switch in Seattle. :-)
-
- > I had planned to get a cellular, then only give out that number. When
- > I get to an office or am at home, I just forward the cellular to the
- > number where I am -- simple. I only give folks one number and it
- > either goes to where I am, or to my home phone with an answering
- > machine. But, as I now realize, this would be very expensive.
-
- That's exactly what I do now, and it works great! The only problems
- I've run into is that on a few occasions, my cellular number has been
- out of service due to switch upgrades, software upgrades, etc.
- Cellular One of Seattle is pretty good about doing this sort of thing
- in the middle of the night on weekends, but they don't realize that
- many of us actually use the telephone during those hours and consider
- 100% uptime a reasonable expectation. "Real" telephone companies
- manage to upgrade their switch software without causing loss of
- service -- at least I've never been deprived of service from a
- landline carrier for this reason.
-
-
- Steve Forrette, stevef@wrq.com
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