Voip or erm?

[n3il123]

Hi I have already posted this in the business forum but thinking about it this is probably a better place to put it (ooooer )

My dad and I co-run a small business, however we live in different areas. What we want is to be able to have one phone number for client calls (all external) etc, which will ring in either or both houses and be able to "opt out" or "Busy" one or both of the phones and then if there is no answer from them both (or both opted out) to divert to a voice mail.

As we both have boradband I am guessing that some form of Voip is going to be the way to go, I am sure that something like this is possible and probably available straight off the shelf but I can't find it

I currently use skype to talk to some other collegues but I am not terribly impressed, I have also looked at vonage but haven't seen anything that looks like it can do what we want, but then I am probably missing something!

Thanks in advance!

[leorest]

Id be surprised if Vonage doesn't do what you want. Might be worth while researching it a bit more.

[Graham]

leorest said:

Id be surprised if Vonage doesn't do what you want.

yep vonage can do that.

[roadsweeper]

Graham said:

leorest said:

Id be surprised if Vonage doesn't do what you want.

yep vonage can do that.

Thirded.

The features you are looking for are Call Diversion and SimulRing.

I have a Vonage setup at home and I can conference call to other landlines for free (max 3 users), instantly divert my number to any other number (Call Divert), make incoming calls ring a number of other lines simultaneously (SimulRing) and I can have as many different numbers as I wish with the option to choose practically any UK and international dialling code meaning UK and international customers can call me for the price of a local call.

More information on all this here