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I'm being absolutely clobbered by BT with our business phone lines.
Our phone is a divert from our old premises, it diverts to my mobile. I pay 100 a quater divert charge plus the cost of the calls. All in its costing me about £300 a quater. Which is alot in the current climate
We have a phone line in our new premises, which we just use for our PDQ machine.
I've spoken to numerous other telecoms providers and none seem to be able to help because of the way the divert is set up.
I thought about having just the landline we use for the pdq as our main phone, but being on the dyno all the time or out and about and with people not leaving messages the mobile is a pretty much a must
Has anyone any ideas ?
Ta
Our phone is a divert from our old premises, it diverts to my mobile. I pay 100 a quater divert charge plus the cost of the calls. All in its costing me about £300 a quater. Which is alot in the current climate
We have a phone line in our new premises, which we just use for our PDQ machine.
I've spoken to numerous other telecoms providers and none seem to be able to help because of the way the divert is set up.
I thought about having just the landline we use for the pdq as our main phone, but being on the dyno all the time or out and about and with people not leaving messages the mobile is a pretty much a must
Has anyone any ideas ?
Ta
Vixpy1 said:
I'm being absolutely clobbered by BT with our business phone lines.
Our phone is a divert from our old premises, it diverts to my mobile. I pay 100 a quater divert charge plus the cost of the calls. All in its costing me about £300 a quater. Which is alot in the current climate
We have a phone line in our new premises, which we just use for our PDQ machine.
I've spoken to numerous other telecoms providers and none seem to be able to help because of the way the divert is set up.
I thought about having just the landline we use for the pdq as our main phone, but being on the dyno all the time or out and about and with people not leaving messages the mobile is a pretty much a must
Has anyone any ideas ?
Ta
Port your number to another provider and use as a geographic number, i.e. the number will sit on the new providers platform and forward calls to you/mobile/landline. Usually to set up around £10 and rental around £5 per month, calls around 2p per minute. Far cheaper than BT.Our phone is a divert from our old premises, it diverts to my mobile. I pay 100 a quater divert charge plus the cost of the calls. All in its costing me about £300 a quater. Which is alot in the current climate
We have a phone line in our new premises, which we just use for our PDQ machine.
I've spoken to numerous other telecoms providers and none seem to be able to help because of the way the divert is set up.
I thought about having just the landline we use for the pdq as our main phone, but being on the dyno all the time or out and about and with people not leaving messages the mobile is a pretty much a must
Has anyone any ideas ?
Ta
Unicom can do this, or other providers, just google geo numbers....
AAT1981 said:
Vixpy1 said:
I'm being absolutely clobbered by BT with our business phone lines.
Our phone is a divert from our old premises, it diverts to my mobile. I pay 100 a quater divert charge plus the cost of the calls. All in its costing me about £300 a quater. Which is alot in the current climate
We have a phone line in our new premises, which we just use for our PDQ machine.
I've spoken to numerous other telecoms providers and none seem to be able to help because of the way the divert is set up.
I thought about having just the landline we use for the pdq as our main phone, but being on the dyno all the time or out and about and with people not leaving messages the mobile is a pretty much a must
Has anyone any ideas ?
Ta
Port your number to another provider and use as a geographic number, i.e. the number will sit on the new providers platform and forward calls to you/mobile/landline. Usually to set up around £10 and rental around £5 per month, calls around 2p per minute. Far cheaper than BT.Our phone is a divert from our old premises, it diverts to my mobile. I pay 100 a quater divert charge plus the cost of the calls. All in its costing me about £300 a quater. Which is alot in the current climate
We have a phone line in our new premises, which we just use for our PDQ machine.
I've spoken to numerous other telecoms providers and none seem to be able to help because of the way the divert is set up.
I thought about having just the landline we use for the pdq as our main phone, but being on the dyno all the time or out and about and with people not leaving messages the mobile is a pretty much a must
Has anyone any ideas ?
Ta
Unicom can do this, or other providers, just google geo numbers....
Though, I'd be (pleasantly) surprised if they can divert to mobile for just 2ppm (I would have thought 7-9ppm would be more realistic)
We had the same situation last year when we moved premises (from home to a business unit).
We basically took a BT Featureline out on both the premises and setup call divert on the old number to the new number (calls between Featurelines are free). Worked out a lot cheaper than the other options we looked at.
You may be able to do this even though you don't have a physical address for the old number.
For the longer term we've changed our stationary/adverts to show the new number from now on...
We basically took a BT Featureline out on both the premises and setup call divert on the old number to the new number (calls between Featurelines are free). Worked out a lot cheaper than the other options we looked at.
You may be able to do this even though you don't have a physical address for the old number.
For the longer term we've changed our stationary/adverts to show the new number from now on...
We sell a box that will forward any landline without interuption (normal ring tone) to a mobile for free (if you sort a friends and family / business set of sim cards) the box has a sim card in it and it will dial up to 3 numbers anytime it gets an incoming call.
We sell loads of them, mainly to small business`s that want to use a landline but are always out and about but it sounds like it will do what you want
We sell loads of them, mainly to small business`s that want to use a landline but are always out and about but it sounds like it will do what you want
DSLiverpool said:
We sell a box that will forward any landline without interuption (normal ring tone) to a mobile for free (if you sort a friends and family / business set of sim cards) the box has a sim card in it and it will dial up to 3 numbers anytime it gets an incoming call.
We sell loads of them, mainly to small business`s that want to use a landline but are always out and about but it sounds like it will do what you want
Can you mail me the info, I may be interested in this to sell???We sell loads of them, mainly to small business`s that want to use a landline but are always out and about but it sounds like it will do what you want
It may be worth while speaking to Orange. They have something called "Mobile Landline". This is affectively a virtual landline number which routes directly to an Orange sim card. You are therefore able to advertise a landline number which you can handle on your mobile. The Mobile Landline tariff is £15 per month with no additional divert charges. You would of course need an Orange mobile phone in order to do this.
If you would like any further information regarding this, please don't hesitate to let me know.
If you would like any further information regarding this, please don't hesitate to let me know.
FNBGLtd said:
It may be worth while speaking to Orange. They have something called "Mobile Landline". This is affectively a virtual landline number which routes directly to an Orange sim card. You are therefore able to advertise a landline number which you can handle on your mobile. The Mobile Landline tariff is £15 per month with no additional divert charges. You would of course need an Orange mobile phone in order to do this.
If you would like any further information regarding this, please don't hesitate to let me know.
O2 do the sameIf you would like any further information regarding this, please don't hesitate to let me know.
DSLiverpool said:
We sell a box that will forward any landline without interuption (normal ring tone) to a mobile for free (if you sort a friends and family / business set of sim cards) the box has a sim card in it and it will dial up to 3 numbers anytime it gets an incoming call.
We sell loads of them, mainly to small business`s that want to use a landline but are always out and about but it sounds like it will do what you want
Is that a premi-cell?We sell loads of them, mainly to small business`s that want to use a landline but are always out and about but it sounds like it will do what you want
There seems to be different products being discussed here. I think I'm in the same boat as the OP, paying through the nose to permanently redirect a number that was previously a land line to a new number. When I looked into it a few years ago I couldn't find anyone other than BT to do a specific allocated number that no longer had a base.
C Lee Farquar said:
There seems to be different products being discussed here. I think I'm in the same boat as the OP, paying through the nose to permanently redirect a number that was previously a land line to a new number. When I looked into it a few years ago I couldn't find anyone other than BT to do a specific allocated number that no longer had a base.
There are multiple options these days.Personally, I'd be opting for a virtual number, though the suggestions above appear to be more cost effective.
Either way, shop around and check the small print.
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