Curran@UMASS.BITNET (John Curran) (04/21/87)
I have this wonderful service on my line called Call Fowarding (It had best be wonderful; the person who sold it to me told me it was wonderful, and my monthly overhead just went up a little..) If I set forwarding to a line that would be a charge call, and you call me, who pays to have that call forwarded? Also, what rate applies? If you are paying for it is there anyway for you to detect this fact? Would the rate be calculated based as if you called the destination directly? Finally, If both my best friend and myself set call forwarding to each other, what happens when someone calls? John Curran [If you set call forwarding, the rate between you and the forwarded destination is what is charged, and YOU PAY THAT NO MATTER WHERE THE CALL ORIGINATES FROM. Also, if you forward to someone who forwards to you the call goes "click", "click", busy. The two clicks are the trunks going between your central offices. If you do this to someone on the same ESS machine, it gives you a busy immediately. This is useful especially if you have your calls forwarded from home to work and vice versa. You can safely forward your calls bi-directionned until you get home and clear the forwarding. Also, I crashed our central office forwarding once to someone on the same machine (that was 12 years ago). --jsol]