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- From: borden@head-cfa.harvard.edu (Dave Borden)
- Newsgroups: ne.general
- Subject: Re: Moving and Trying to Keep Phone Number - Need Advice
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.185710.10006@m5.harvard.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 18:57:10 GMT
- References: <1992Nov19.172109.9888@m5.harvard.edu>
- Reply-To: borden@m5.harvard.edu
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- Organization: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- In article <1992Nov19.172109.9888@m5.harvard.edu> borden@m5.harvard.edu writes:
- >I'm trying to find out if I have any options for keeping my current phone
- >number if I move out of town. My situation is: I live in Central Square,
- >Cambridge. I really want to find another apartment, and it has to be cheap,
- >which makes it harder to find something in Cambridge. I have a freelance
- >business (I play piano), and there are hundreds of flyers and cards out there
- >with my Cambridge phone number on them. I need to keep this number active in
- >some sense, for an indefinite period of time, maybe permanently. New England
- >Telephone will only put a message on the number for a few months, then they
- >recirculate the number; to get a Cambridge number in anyplace other than
- >Cambridge is extremely expensive.
- >
- >So the question is: does anyone know a way to keep a phone number without
- >maintaining a residence? Thanks in advance for any help you are able to give.
-
- I've been able to answer my own question since I posted this. In case anyone
- is interested, here's the answer: There's a service offered through New
- England Telephone's business service office (737-7000), which is also
- available to residential customers, called Remote Call Forwarding. This
- allows one to keep one's old phone number without the phone line, and have
- the calls forwarded to a new phone number, any number you want. You pay
- $41.54 for installation, $16.97 per month for the service, and for the phone
- line usage, whatever the call would normally cost, from your old number to
- your new number. For example, if you Cambridge to Somerville, as I might do,
- and someone calls you at your old Cambridge number, you would pay the local
- message units charge on their call.
-
- Hope this is of use to someone out there.
-
- - Dave Borden
- borden@m5.harvard.edu
-