You have one cell phone and you were going to switch the sim during the trip correct? Grab a pay-per-minute phone (Fry's has cheap ones for $14 every other week). Put the sim from your phone in the cheapie and plug it into the charger and set it to forward all calls to the new number. Leave it turned on a plugged in while your're gone and all calls should go to the new number until you get back and change it back.
lopaka Brian Weeden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have looked at Asterix before and never got around to setting it up. The problem is that I don't have a landline - just my cell phone. And the SIM card will not be in that cell phone as it will be traveling with me and have another country SIM. So I'm not sure how Asterix would get the calls and forward them as I am under the impression that it needs to be connected to POTS somehow to do that. Maybe I'm wrong. And normally I would just have the phone company forward the number but I am guessing that forwarding my Canadian number to an American number would cause some sort of sizeable fee. I'm discovering quite a few snags with trying to be internationally mobile in this modern world. Most of these snags seem to come from this antiquted notion of "national borders" and that people decide to live inside one and never leave. And that the world is a completely different place once you cross said "national borders" even if you just moved across a bridge. For example, my car insurance rates went from $500/6 mo to $1000/6 mo when I moved to Canada (for 2 cars with 2 drivers). Part of the reason is that I have no driving history in Canada and for some reason the 14 years of driving without filing a claim in the US doesn't count. Guess they assume you go stupid when you cross the border. On Jan 10, 2008 4:47 PM, Robert Martin Jr. wrote: > Not neccessarily. What you want to do is possible to do but you'd need an > asterisk box or vmware image configured to recieve and forward calls from > home to the new number. > > Setting this up could be a major project though, if you haven't used > asterisk/freepbx before. You might be able to have the phone company do a > temporary call forward to the new number during your trip > > lopaka > > > Brian Weeden wrote: Do I have to base everything off the Grandcentral number? I would > prefer to have a system that used my current number instead. I guess > I could get a US Grandcentral number and then forward that to the > prepaid number. The problem with that is people that are in Canada > and call my Canadian cell would not get forwarded. > > On Jan 10, 2008 4:34 PM, Robert Martin Jr. wrote: > > I use Grandcentral. If you give out a grandcentral number to everyone you > > can forward it to mulitiple phones, or to single phone and change which > > number it forwards to whenever you like. While your gone forward to your > > cell and when you get back change forwarding number to home phone again. > > This is nice because if you move residence you still use grandcentral as > > the number and forward to the new phone. > > > > It's been very reliable. I use grandcentral paired with gizmo on > > PBX-in-a-Flash from nervittles, to provide a separate free number (VOIP) > > for my step daughter that goes to her room. All the phone calls every > > evening were bugging me and now they can talk all they want (incoming is > > free, outgoing is cheap via Callcentric & Les.net) > > > > lopaka > > > > Brian Weeden > > wrote: I'm going to be spending the better part of a month traveling in the > > > > US for 2 weeks and then Austia for a week. Right now I have a > > Canadian cell phone. So I plan on getting prepaid SIM cards for the > > US and Austria so I don't have to pay roaming charges. But this > > introduces the problem of letting people know my new numbers. Instead > > of spamming my new numbers to all my contacts I'm looking for a more > > elegant solution. > > > > One way would be to record a voicemail greeting on my Canadian cell > > saying that I'm traveling and list my new number. But I think there > > could be a better solution. My dream solution would be to have calls > > made to my Canadian cell number automatically routed to whatever > > prepaid card number I am currently using. Since I am going to be > > taking the Canadian SIM out of the phone to swap in the prepaid it > > needs to work without the actual phone being on. > > > > I've heard a lot about GrandCentral and was wondering if anyone on the > > list had experience with it: > > > > http://www.grandcentral.com > > > > Can anyone think of another way to solve my little dilemma? > > > > ------- > > Brian > > > > > >
