dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com (David Tamkin) (09/15/90)
Paul Wilczynski asked in volume 10, issue 642: | I've never heard of the following service, but is it possible? I'd | certainly pay for it: | Call Forwarding which could be changed from a remote site. For | example: I leave my office, go someplace else, and modify the | forwarding on my office phone to go to where I am. Radio Shack sells a device intended to accomplish that; the 1990 catalog lists it for $99.95. I do not know specifically how the Radio Shack product works, but in a previous digest issue, another reader described one such animal's modus operandi: when it detects an incoming call, it allows the call to be forwarded as the owner programmed. It then sends *73 or the local equivalent to shut Call Forwarding off. If no other call comes within the next thirty seconds, it dials out to re-establish Call Forwarding to the same destination number. If another call does arrive within thirty seconds and you key in the passcode in DTMF, you can instruct the box to reprogram Call Forwarding to a new destination number, which it will do when you finish the sequence and hang up. I'm not sure exactly what happens if someone else should happen to call in the thirty-second window; perhaps that caller gets silence, but in any case for lack of entry of the proper passcode, the box re-establishes Call Forwarding to the old destination number. David Tamkin Box 7002 Des Plaines IL 60018-7002 708 518 6769 312 693 0591 MCI Mail: 426-1818 GEnie: D.W.TAMKIN CIS: 73720,1570 dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com