Call divert from landline to mobile

handy148

what's the best and/or cheapest way to do this please

Heinz

Welcome to the MSE forums handy148.

20p per divert (of up to 20 minutes):

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=6481229#post6481229

Jbird_2

handy148 wrote: »

what's the best and/or cheapest way to do this please

I too am looking at this as I run my business from home but am out so often and need to take my calls out with me by diverting to my mobile.

So far I've found Virgin offer Talk Anywhere 200 (200 mins per month), 400 (400 mins per month) or 600 minutes for the landline which gives you calls anywhere including mobiles for that amount of minutes per month. I asked if this included diverted calls from landline to my mobile and they said yes. If you go over your subscribed mins tho it could get expensive.

If anyone else can suggested a better deal please let me know. Thanks.

Heinz

Jbird wrote: »

I too am looking at this as I run my business from home but am out so often and need to take my calls out with me by diverting to my mobile.

So far I've found Virgin offer Talk Anywhere 200 (200 mins per month), 400 (400 mins per month) or 600 minutes for the landline which gives you calls anywhere including mobiles for that amount of minutes per month. I asked if this included diverted calls from landline to my mobile and they said yes. If you go over your subscribed mins tho it could get expensive.

Call me suspicious but, if I were you, I'd like to be able to find that somewhere on their website before proceeding (it's the diverted part that I can't find).

mdpl

on a mobile phone if you phone a cordless landline number & the person answers you talk & then the person with the mobile ends the call but the person on the cordless just puts the phone down & doesn't press the end call button the mobile is still getting charged until the cordless phone is switched off even though your mobile is not registering any call you are still on the landline & if you ring the landline from a completely different phone it will be engaged.found this out to great cost to myself rang vodafone & they said it is impossible have tried it on 5 different mobiles & they are all the same when you call cordless landlines thought you might like to try it to see if it works as i know it does
thanks
paula

Jbird_2

Heinz wrote: »

Call me suspicious but, if I were you, I'd like to be able to find that somewhere on their website before proceeding (it's the diverted part that I can't find).

You've hit the nail right on the head - cant find this anywhere on their website despite being told by two separate people in their call centre that this would be covered. Think I might ask them to confirm in writing before I go ahead and I totally agree with your comment as there would be no comeback if I have been advised wrongly unless I have proof - will let you know what happens in due course.

Does anyone else know of any other suppliers who offer good deals for diverting landline to mobile?

BexTech

You'll need to work out whether the 20p for up to 20 mins via Primus is better value than the 200, 400 or 800 mins at a monthly rate chargeable each and every month whether you use up the minutes or not.

andrew323

I am also in the same situation, just had a huge phone bill for calls diverted from my land line to my mobile as i work away from my office. I have seen Burnside telecoms call forwarding solution. Quite an expensive bit of hardware, then you need to get a sim card, ideally on contract. Then if the contracts on same network and group as your own mobile then the calls would be free. Looks very appealing. Has anyone used such a unit. There are others out there that do the same that are cheaper but after seeing that there instruction manuals online seemed to be bad english translations gave me some concern.

The other feature these offer is that you pick up you land line phone then if you dial 07 the unit knows you are calling a mobile then automatically sends the call over the mobile network so you aren't paying crazy landline to mobile phone call cost.
Has anyone got one?

Paulgonnabedebtfree

I have a BT line and have an issue about call diversion. Firstly, I do need a divert service as my business is advertised and I get work from it that I would otherwise not have done. I do use an override call provider from my BT line (18866) (except on weekends to landlines when it's free anyway) and save a fair bit by doing this. However, BT seemed to block this prefix when I tried to set it up with my mobile number as the number to divert to. I am not a heavy phone user really so most of my BT call charges are diverts to my mobile. Having it as my "best friend" number knocks 20% off the call charges so that helps a bit. Ideally, I would like to be able to include the 18866 prefix when setting up the divert. I even wonder if blocking the prefix is against the competition rules with which BT must comply due to their former monopoly and current quasi-monopoly. I do get a reduction on the calls to mobiles but I have to pay £1.50 a month for that (probably just about pays for itself) in addition to the £1.50 a month diverting charge (think I got those numbers right).
Whichever way I slice it, having a divert to mobile pays for itself due to the work I get from it.

Heinz

BT can (and do) bar prefixes in 'divert to' strings.

Please see post #2.

Paulgonnabedebtfree

Heinz wrote: »

BT can (and do) bar prefixes in 'divert to' strings.

Please see post #2.

OK I didn't pick up on that as it was in a link that I didn't click on.
Not sure that I fully understood the post in the link but would like to have a read of the .pdf file mentioned.
Is it online or available by email only?