Straight Talk GSM Nokia e71 question....

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zoldemayo

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First off, thank you to the community, I am very glad to be here.

Now, on to my scenario and question. I have the phone/service listed in the title of this thread. I have no signal/service what so ever here at home. I have been forwarding my phone calls while out of service to a magic jack phone I have here for home phone service and its been working great, I just hate having to have the computer on all of the time for magic jack to work.

My magic jack service ends in March and I plan to switch to a net duo, which is basically the same thing, only $30 a year rather than $20, but I don't have to have the computer on for Net Duo to work.

Here is the issue, there are no local area code numbers available to me from net duo, whatever phone number I choose will be long distance for those that call me.

I give everyone my cell phone number, and give no one my new net duo number. If I have calls forwarded from my cell phone when unavailable to the new long distance net duo phone number, will the people calling me be charged long distance charges? It seems to me they would not since they are dialing a local phone number and that my cell phone that includes nationwide free long distance would handle that part of the call, but I just want to be sure.

I asked this question on the official net duo message boards and they said there would be no long distance charges for my callers.

Then, to double check, I emailed straight talk and asked them the question... big mistake, they are incompetent, their response was DDDUHHH you can not forward calls with the straight talk service, its not available... yeah right, I have already been forwarding calls with it, I know its available and works well, they were no help.

Anyway, and now, here I am, asking the experts. Will my callers be charged long distance fees for dialing my local cell phone number if the call is forwarded to a phone number that is long distance to the caller?

thanks in advance
 
In this day and age you shouldnt have to worry about people dialing a long distance number. All cell phones have free long distance and even the same as landlines now.
Also to note I can recall a discussion a few years ago about people calling a number down the street and you would have to put the area code even though it was the same since it was considered long distance.

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Thanks for the reply, but, believe it or not, the majority of people in my area still use and rely on land lines because its very hilly and mountainous here, and no cell phone company offers service that is reliable enough to not keep a land line, and very few use VOIP phones, so long distance charges are a reality with them, and that's the reason for this question.

If forwarding my cell calls to a long distance number means long distance for them, then I will simply stick with the magic jack, however if there are no long distance charges I would love to change to the net duo.
 
The people who call your wireless device do not even know they are being forwarded. They will not incur any long distance charges for calling your wireless number with a local exchange.

I do this all of the time, because my work might require me to surrender my wireless device when I enter a facility. Before I get to the entrance I forward my number to the office I will be using, and worry about text messages when I pick up my phone on the way out.

Nobody who calls me knows he is being forwarded, and nobody has ever incurred any charges because of the forwarding.

The only thing to be careful of is that your wireless phone will be charged by most providers in exactly the same fashion it would be charged if you were holding the conversation on the wireless device. If that makes sense. :-) So you are using your wireless minutes, in most cases, for the forwarded call, and your wireless provider will know about the call and know about the originating exchange and number.

If that is any concern to you.
 
Thanks, this is the exact info I was looking for, I thought this was the case but I just wanted to make sure. As far as my own use, I am not worried about that, I have the unlimited everything $45 plan from straight talk.
 
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