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Posted by: MARK on 2010-09-05, 03:05:22
When a phone diverts to another number, then unless that number is their network operator-provided voicemail, the person who owns the number being diverted, has to pay for the diverted leg of the call. If the number being diverted is prepay, you almost certainly won't be able to do it, because prepay services normally only allow diversion to voicemail. [The reason for this is that with the phone permanently diverted, unless the number it is being diverted to is near you (in which case, why bother diverting?), then you won't know whether or not calls are coming in and being diverted. This means that you are now no longer in control of how quickly you run out of credit (to pay for the diverted leg of the call)] Bear in mind that if you do set up diverts, it's likely to be the case that the phone being diverted will manage diverts based on profiles - so if you set up a divert whilst the profile is set to "home ", if you change the profile to "at work " or "in a meeting " or "silent ", then the phone may instruct the network to change the numbers to be diverted to. There will likely be some conditions where diverts can't be set up or won't work (e.g. for obvious reasons, you wouldn't be permitted to set a divert to 999 or to premium rate numbers; when roamed abroad, your network operator may not allow diverts to anything other than voicemail to be permitted). I would recommend finding and using the options on the handset, but you can always use USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Services Data) strings to accomplish diverts: CFU (Call Forward Unconditional - permanent divert) --- Reg & Activate**21*number# Dereg & Deactivate##21# Activate*21# Deactivate#21# Query*#21# CFNRY (Call Forward on No ReplY - your phone rings but you don't answer) ----- Reg & Activate**61*number# Dereg & Deactivate##61# Activate*61*number# Deactivate#61# Query*#61# Change Delay**61*number**nn# [nn= 5-second increments upto 30 max] CFNRC (Call Forward on Not ReaChable - phone switched off or out of coverage) ----- Reg & Activate**62*number# Dereg & Deactivate##62# Query*#62# CFB (Call Forward on Busy - you are on another call) --- Reg & Activate**67*number# Dereg & Deactivate##67# Query*#67# ALL TYPES --------- Deactivate##002# ALL CONDITIONS -------------- Deactivate##004# |
