RE: Asterisk and call forwarding

["Des Gibbons" <des@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>
> Well it's one of the advantages of working for a telco - you get
> access to all sorts of stuf 'normal' people don't - but there are
> downsides too :D

lol, another plus is you get paid ;)

.. you could achieve a similar result by using a
> VoIP to PSTN service. This would still tie up your pstn line but
> essentially you'd answer the pstn line and then dial out over
> VoiP (using that voip -> pstn service) to your mobile.

This is what I am thinking of, I don't mind the pstn line being tied up and
I don't mind paying for the voip-pstn service, so it looks good.

>
> It gets better if you use ISDN since you can use call deflection
> to not tie up one of your isdn lines (you pay for the extra leg
> not the caller)

Unless they bring out ADSL over ISDN I'll not be going ISDN. Have had
ISDN2e
and Business highway in the past and they are great, but I can't justify
ISDN and a POTS at the same time.

>
> HTH

Your previous post with the sipcall service looks promising, I'm reading
their site :)

Cheers, Des.