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

["Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think he wants to get an extra "walkie talkie" cell phone - usually calls
between these two are unlimited - and have one of those cellphones able to
connect to the home landline and have it dial long distance and local calls
which are expensive to place from the cell directly but apparently nearly
free from the landline.

Cell ---> free call ONLY to other cell --> landline --> free local & LD to
anyone

Phone companies call such practices "tariff evasion" and will probably
terminate people if they catch them.

Not sure any of us have gotten the right answer yet as to what would allow
the poster to do the above.  The Uniden device I cited comes close, but it's
in the wrong direction, from landline to cell.  It may be capable of the
reverse but my brief read of the blurb didn't reveal it.  It's most
certainly going to involve a Bluetooth enabled phone, though.

Rube Goldberg might rig something through the headphone jack and some car
door solenoids to press the cellphone buttons.  You'd really only need to go
on hook and off.  With enough amplification the cell's tone could "dial" the
landline phone directly once it was taken off hook and coupled to the cell.

--
Bobby G.


"Bill Kearney" <wkearney99@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > 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?
>