Possible to call forward all inbound calls from office phone to mobile via Fab5?

[MOH2010]

So I have a new $50/month + $12 Call Messenging/Call Display contract with Bell. I have the Fab 5 feature which is nationwide.

So the question is can I make use of the Fab 5 feature and let all my clients call my office line which can be set to auto-forward to my mobile, and not use up my regular 200 daytime minutes? Of course I will configure my office number to be on the Fab 5 list.

Or is it that Bell checks the originating number and knows that it is from a different number than what I listed in my Fab 5?

Thanks.

[jattdesi]

^ I don't think that's going to work, as far as I know calls have to directly be made or directly received in order for your Fab feature to work.

[Rogido]

I don't know about Bell, but I believe for Rogers' My Five, there is specific wording that the calls cannot be forwarded calls. The system obviously can detect forwarded calls.

[gundagordy]

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I doubt you'd be charged for that, as receiving a call from a forwarded number is out of your control.

So if you have 555-555-5555 in your Fab5, then it should be no charge, regardless of it being a forwarded call or not.

[kav2001c]

If you call forward you are not receiving the call though?

Eg if Office is 416-555-5555 & you put that into Fab5
A customer with 819-555-5555 calls your office, call is forwarded to your cell, the 819 number is not in your Fab5 so you are charged

[gundagordy]

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Well, let's look at it another way. Let's say 416-555-5555 is in my Fab5 and this is the office number. Today, the office has decided to forward all calls to 819-555-5555. I place the call to the office number. Why should I be charged for that call when their forwarding is out of my control?

It should work both ways.

[DennyCrane]

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Well, let's look at it another way. Let's say 416-555-5555 is in my Fab5 and this is the office number. Today, the office has decided to forward all calls to 819-555-5555. I place the call to the office number. Why should I be charged for that call when their forwarding is out of my control?

It should work both ways.

You wouldn't be charged in that scenario because you are calling a number on your Fab5 list.

[gundagordy]

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I can see if 819-555-5555 showed up on my call display being a chargeable call, but if its 416-555-5555 that does, the call should be no charge.

[B407]

I don't think that will work. When a call is forwarded the original caller ID info is still carried through. I use call forwarding to forward all missed calls to my Google voice voicemail. This is how I have it setup. My cellphone is set to conditionally forward all calls that I don't answer or when im unavailable to a voip number and that voip number then forwards the call to my Google voice number. Even though the call is forwarded twice, Google voice still knows exactly who called me.

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[gundagordy]

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^You're right. I thought about this after I posted previously, and it won't work.

I've used call forwarding in the past and should've known better.

OP: they're all correct. It won't work.

[frankie5string]

I actually do this. You don't say what kind of phone system your office has.

On one system, it's a VoIP system and I force the CID of all outbound calls to read as a specific "spare" phone number I have on my Fab5. Those calls never incur airtime charges as per my Fab 5.

In another instance, I have a line on an old Norstar Meridian that, when called, picks up a specific line in the line pool and immediately dials my cellphone. So it always shows the number of the line in the line-pool, which is on my Fab5 list, and the calls never charge for airtime.

Call forwarding on office lines, if you're behind a PBX, can often be programmed to work in one of these ways. Sometimes you have to make a call to your office PBX provider to set it up.