[woodman]

Does any one know,

how to divert calls from a land line number to a mobile

[John_McGavin]

Hi really simple, firstly get in contact with your supplier and ensure you have the divert facility on your line. I pay £1.00 a month to have this.

Then when you leave the house/office you simply lift the receiver type in a code followed by the number you want to divert to and hey presto. caller calls your office number and the call goes straight to your mobile without delay.

Just be aware you pay for the call from your land line to your mobile, the caller just get charged normal rates.

I use this all the time now as I found most callers didnt leave a message on the answering machine.

John

[woodman]

Thanks John :

I am a bit of a techno thicko  

trevor

[Martin S]

Trevor,

Further to John's post.  Even though the initial call from your customer may be to your home number, when the call is diverted to your mobile, you will still be able to see the number of the person calling (as long as you have caller display). Most phones nowadays also allow you to set different ringtones for different caller groups.  So when the wife or the Bank Manager calls, you can choose to ignore it by the ringtone alone.  (Not that you would of course).

Did you have a good holiday?

Martin S

[John_McGavin]

No problem, only pain is when you get these telesales folk on the phone & youre paying for the call  

John

[paulchambers]

sign up to telephone preference service shouldn't get any cold callers , i still get a few but not so many

[John_McGavin]

Already done that Paul but guaranteed on a Friday afternoon when my adverts in the paper you get the call .... "can I speak to the person in charge of advertising... " At the stage now I just hang up   they soon get the message

John

[dac]

All you ever wanted to know about thoses *'s & #'s

Call Diversion-
  All calls:     *21*number# (dial tone changes)
  Check:         *#21#
  Cancel:        #21#

  Divert on busy:      *67*number# (dial tone changes)
  Check:         *#67#
  Cancel:        #67#

  Divert on no reply:  *61*number# (dial tone changes)
  Divert on no reply:  *61*number*wait# == (Extra System Y facility)
  Check:         *#61#
  Cancel:        #61#

Divert on busy or no reply:  *66*number#
                 (*#66# doesn't work.)
  Cancel:        #66#

Incoming Call Barring-
  Set up:        *261#    (dial tone changes)
  Check:         *#261#
  Cancel:        #261#    (System X)
  Cancel:        #261*keyword#  (System Y)
           (keyword is a 4 digit code assigned by BT)

Outgoing Call Barring-
  Set up:        *34N#    N = barring level
  Check:         *#34#
  Cancel:        *34N*keyword#  (keyword is a 4 digit code
                 assigned by BT)

[Neil Gott]

If you have a memory facility on your landline phone, you can record the codes for divert and cancel divert, thus saving the bind of having to key them in every time. Depending on the instrument, it may be useful to give them names preceded by the letter A so that they are at the top of your list.

[Dynafoam]

Neil,

Steady on young'n - I have just about come to terms with numbers that don't go round a circle, and Derek would need evening classes to cope with the likes of that  

[Mike Halliday]

If you divert your calls get in touch with BT and get them to remove the divert message, some people still think if the call is getting diverted to a mobile they will have to pay extra and they may hang up.

once the message is removed the phone rings as normal and gives no indication that the call was diverted.

Mike

[shaun_pearson]

thanks for that tip mike. i used to have telewest and that diveted without the customer knowing now with bt and you here the message. i didn't know you could remove it so thanks

shaun              did you get email from me