Landline Number Straight To Mobile?

[Zeemax_Mini]

I'm currently starting a small business with my brother. We've just found a tiny office we like, but we'll be out and about quite alot and not always there. We're thinking about getting a landline number which rings straight through to both of our mobiles - is this possible and how much would it cost (and from who?!). What we want is a number (say 01753 112233) which automatically rings both of our mobiles when someone rings it, and they wouldn't know it was being redirected. Any ideas!?

Cheers,

Dom

[elster]

I do this at the moment.

Although I have no idea what is involved to forward to 2 mobiles.

[DSLiverpool]

You can get a device that will send your landline number to a mobile if not answered it then sends to another Numbet, if you have a sim to sim free call deal it's free.

[GuinnessMK]

We got our VOIP phone lines from AQL in Leeds.

The two office numbers rang a few times in the office, then if not answered, divert to mobiles.

The third number diverted straight to a mobile. We paid a few pence a minute for the diverted calls.

[Dogwatch]

The Crack Fox said:

A BT feature line will do this, just key in a preset sequence and it'll divert wherever you like.

http://bt.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/8444/~/call-diversion

[Zeemax_Mini]

Thanks guys - will look into the above! Doesn't look like the BT redirect could ring through to two seperate mobile numbers thought? Looks like it may be harder than I thought - will have a think about the best way to do it!

Dom

[kryten]

Many of the 'newer' phone companies can offer multi-ring services like this. You can even port an existing number from BT etc to keep the same one.

Many of our clients do it (eg for small three/four person taxi firms that don't want a controller).

[Mr Overheads]

Zeemax - this CAN be done. It is controlled by a web portal that you have access to, so you can change options to your heart's content e.g. deactivate one mobile if one person is on holiday for instance. It's a network level product sold by many resellers (some with massive markup's!) PM me if you would like me to recommend a company you can use for this that won't put a massive markup on it and will ensure you get good customer service.

[Pork]

I thought you could tell as the ring tone is different on a mobile to that on a LL?

[skwdenyer]

I used to forward / divert office calls to a mobile. This worked fine, except the mobile's voicemail picks up the messages in most cases. The diverts / hunt groups work on time-to-answer, so if you're out-of-signal then your mobile voicemail picks things up.

I've given up. I now use Gradwell (as I do for VOIP lines). They offer a mobile service with their own SIM (on Three's network). The mobile phone now behaves as if it is a landline (in my case it has an 020 number not an 07 number), and also as if it is an extension on the office phone system (which is actually a virtual PBX from Gradwell).

In terms of voicemails, I've also taken Gradwell's voice-to-text service, powered by SpinVox, which translates voicemails into text which is sent by email and/or text.

So now I have a mobile handset in my pocket, when I make calls from it my customers see my 020 number as if I were in the office, and voicemails are transcribed and delivered to the handset by email.

This works very well for me. Every other service I've tried is a kludge in comparison! The downsides? I have to pay to receive calls on the mobile, I don't get thousands of inclusive outbound minutes, and so on.

And, no, I have no other relationship with Gradwell beyond being a customer.

Vodaphone now offer a similar service under their Business offerings. It may be a better deal (but it doesn't integrate with my Gradwell PBX so I prefer what I have).

[kryten]

Pork said:

I thought you could tell as the ring tone is different on a mobile to that on a LL?

Nope, its the same. Calls to overseas numbers (or mobiles roaming abroad) can be different however there's no requirement to use the provided ringtone - once ringing is signalled the network can play a UK ringtone anyway.

[Don't Lift]

Try this

http://www.vodafone.co.uk/business/business-soluti...