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Remote call forwarding is also a means for a suburban business to obtain a city-centre local number (with its full large-city coverage area) for inbound calls; while cheaper than a foreign exchange line, this can reduce long-distance telephony costs in markets where local calls are flat-rated but trunk calls are expensive.
Call forwarding, or call diversion, is a telephony feature of all telephone switching systems which redirects a telephone call to another destination, which may be, for example, a mobile or another telephone number where the desired called party is available. Call forwarding was invented by Ernest J. Bonanno.
As CLASS was an AT&T trademark, the term vertical service code was adopted by the North American Numbering Plan Administration. The use of vertical is a somewhat dated reference to older switching methods and the fact that these services can only be accessed by a telephone subscriber, going up ( vertically ) inside the local central office ...
Switch: Place the current call on hold to take the second call (not a new feature) Hang-up: Disconnect the current call and take the second call; Please Hold: Send the caller either a custom or telephone-company-generated voice message asking the caller to hold; Forward to Voice Mail: Send the incoming caller to the recipient’s voice mail ...
Call forwarding, a telephony feature that allows calls to one phone number to be forwarded to another number Remote call forwarding, a telephony feature that allows call forwarding to be activated remotely; Cisco Express Forwarding, an advanced layer 3 switching technology used mainly on the enterprise core network or the Internet
AT&T hoped to obtain approvals by the end of the second quarter of 2009. In an attempt to quell regulators, on May 9, 2009 AT&T entered an agreement with Verizon Wireless to sell off certain existing Centennial service areas in the states of Louisiana and Mississippi for $240 million pending the successful merger of AT&T and Centennial. [6]
AT&T, the nation’s largest carrier, has more than 240 million subscribers. More than 70,000 outages were reported after 8 a.m. ET, according to Downdetector , a website that detects outages.
Optus has an intercept message which is heard by Optus customers when the network is congested or when a technical fault prevents customers from making phone calls: "Unfortunately due to temporary service difficulties, we are unable to connect your call at this time. Please try again later". After the message is played, the call will disconnect.