leichter@lrw.com (Jerry Leichter) (12/20/90)
If I have both distinctive dialing (two or more numbers ring my single line, with different rings) and call forwarding, does forwarding apply to all the numbers on the line? Just the primary number? Can I choose? Jerry [Moderator's Note: I have the situation you describe here in Chicago. When you order distinctive ringing here you choose one or two additional numbers to be associated with the main number. You can either have the main and additional numbers move together on call forwarding or you can have the main number only on call forwarding with the additional line 'ringing through'. This is not a subscriber programmable option. It has to be done in the CO when you order it. My service is set up so that the main or primary number forwards as I set it, but the auxiliary number always overrides call forwarding and rings here. We also get distinctive call waiting tones to tell us if the waiting caller has dialed the main number or the other ones(s). I have my 800 numbers come in via the auxiliary line so that I get a distinctive ring letting me know who is paying for the call. Otherwise, calls on either number work the same: calls screened are blocked from entering either way; return last call returns calls to either number. PAT]