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Re: Does a cell phone forwarding to a land line product exist?



> I have a very limited number of day time cell minutes but unlimited
> anytime mobile to mobile minutes and unlimited anywhere minutes on my
> home's land line. Under our family plan I could add a phone for
> $10/month and leave it at home. Then if I could call the "home" cell
> phone and have the device route/forward the call to my land line I
> could circumvent the grevious limit on my day time outbound cell phone
> minutes.

If you're looking to give out your 'home cell' number for people to call,
and have it picked up on the home 'landline' phones then you're not going to
accomplish saving any minutes.  You'd have to forward your cell number to
the home landline number.  Many cell plans will let you do this, but not
without incurring some consumption of minutes in the process.  You're
'bouncing' the call through cell to home, while the actual cell handset
might not be involved, the switch and cell service are and thus the minutes.
Now, they COULD cut you a break on this but why would a cell company do this
when then can offer a better plan for a few bucks more a month?

What're you trying to accomplish?  Cheap calls from the handset during the
day when you're travelling?  Or something else?



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