The codes listed are accurate as of June With just a couple steps I was able to set up mine, and after testing it on Sprint , it works excellent. Great tip Frank. Google Voice forwards text messages, sorta. Only problem with Google Voice is that you have to give everyone your Google Voice number for it to work.
Usually they already have your regular number.
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Of course, you could just tell everyone that your number changed and have them call your GVoice. Is there a way I forward my calls to my home from my iPhone already enabled remotely?
I live in the hills and have NO cell service. I have to drive 7 — 9 miles before I get a signal — poor me — I know. I never remember to forward calls before heading up. I want to call in on my land line 2, use my passcode, and forward the calls to Line 1 here at home? Cannot get to the app from here…. Or maybe from my computer? Any ideas? I think it is set up this way so that stalkers cannot forward my calls to their house in the hills…. Steve Krause.
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Another option would be to use Google Voice to control the forwarding. You would just setup a Google Voice account then control where the number sends the calls. You can have it send calls to home home phone or mobile based on the time of day or even the phone. You could get one of the location based services people use to track their kids. Shockersh Well, if you receive all of your calls via your Google Voice number — yeah it is pretty simple to forward them from to any phone you want since that is the only way to receive Google Voice calls.
And, Google Voice will foward all text messages to your phone unless you turn off that feature on the google. Hi there. I have a Samsung galaxy. I am needing to call forward to my home. But cannot. Any ideals.
My captell phone through Time Warner will let me not only forward calls from it to my cell phone Galaxy S5 through Sprint but will also ring both phones so I can pick up either one. Can my Galaxy be set up to do the same thing? Hello , can you help me?
I usually forward calls to my cell phone , but recently I can not do it. Please help me. Have you check with your Telcom team at work? Note to Verizon users. Awesome — Thnx — Updated article. It had a few old codes in there. Looks like the carriers made a few updates. When a call comes in and I answer it, is there a way then to transfer that caller to another person on a different cell number?
Hi, I have T Mobile and am unable to forward my calls. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Perhaps you have Linlink? Thank you for that suggestion but I am still getting same result. I am getting pretty frustrated and am about to go with another carrier just so I can combine my work and personal phone. Sick of carrying 2 phones to do one job. I think the best option before you port the phone is to just call your carrier and see what they say.
He told me that that service was not available to me. I asked several times just to make sure we understood each other. Thank you for all of your help and suggestions. I guess it is time for me to shop around for a different phone and carrier. I just need the texts and calls from this number to go to the other phone. I went to my phone sprint account on line and was able to set it up so my land line calls rang my cell phone as well.
Then I can either pick up the land line or my cell phone to take the call. Again, I had to go on line to Sprint, log in and do it there. Hope this helps. Is there a inexpensive service that would allow me to forward my calls to a Toronto area code.
Also have you heard of any cell phones that have 2 line capability. If you happen to call the carrier and check on it, please let us know here. Would be great info to post up on the article. Shrinking the number of national providers from four to three will hurt consumers, harm competition, and eliminate thousands of jobs.
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In deciding to overlook these harms, the FCC and the Department of Justice have been wooed by a few unenforceable concessions and hollow promises from the two companies involved. Read more: The people who lose when companies merge. The T-Mobile—Sprint merger will end a golden age in wireless that helped bring to market lower prices and more innovative services. It will mean an end to the competitive rivalry that reduced consumer rates by 28 percent during the past decade. Similarly, the pressure to support unlimited-data plans and free international roaming will fade.
Offers by carriers to pay early-termination fees to help families switch to plans that fit their lives will fall by the wayside. And the network improvements that will bring us the next generation of wireless service, known as 5G, will proceed more slowly and yield fewer jobs without the fuel of competitive pressure.
- The Washington Post
In short, our existing wireless market will devolve into a cozy oligopoly dominated by just three carriers. This will do nothing to make it easier for Americans to stay connected. After all, our wireless phones are how we communicate, pay for all kinds of services, seek out jobs, keep up on the news, and stay in touch with the world around us. Arguably, no service is now more central to our daily lives.
But for all this connectivity, we pay a price. Moreover, that figure probably understates the true cost because it does not include the expanding range of devices, applications, and content we use with this service. Why are the two agencies so eager to approve this blatantly anticompetitive deal? T-Mobile and Sprint have promised that if they are allowed to merge, they will hold off on raising prices for three years.
They have also committed to deploying 5G networks nationwide within six years and divesting some assets to help prop up Dish Network as a new wireless competitor to replace Sprint. So the opportunity to use this transaction to advance 5G services and help bridge a digital divide that plagues too much of this country may seem compelling. The promises that T-Mobile and Sprint are making do little more than camouflage the damage this transaction will cause the competition. For instance, the agreement to freeze prices is littered with loopholes for fees and surcharges.
Plus, keeping rates constant is not an especially good deal for consumers when wireless prices have been falling. Read more: The increasing politicization of the FCC. Likewise, the commitment to serve rural and urban areas with next-generation 5G service may sound attractive for a nation struggling with the digital divide, but it ultimately falls flat. Both carriers already pumped out a stream of press releases promising to build this network before the transaction. Competition spurred U. But the centerpiece of the promises T-Mobile has made to justify this transaction is the creation of a new fourth carrier.
As promised, the arrangement will give Dish Network the opportunity to resell T-Mobile services while it builds out its own network.