Change carriers whenever you need to without their holding you hostage.  When you change a mobile number, you invariably have to notify hundreds of people of a number change, reprint business cards, etc.  

Assuming that you have residential rates in your home office or that you're comfortable with paying for local calls (in most commercial plans), you order a feature called "hard forward".  The logic works like this: if you're phone is busy or unanswered in a specified number of rings, e.g. 2 rings, the call forwards to your cell phone. In this manner, your cell phone voice mail  is then your one stop voice mail.

Here is the result.  You can change cell phone carriers whenever you need (just give the phone company 4 hours notice of a different forwarding number) - remember the cell phone number is now invisible for incoming calls.  The answering machine is transparent, receiving calls is transparent and your clients have a single number for you.

If you cell phone is turned off (or it has the ability to reject individual incoming calls), the caller goes directly to voice mail without an excessive number of rings.

Works like a charm for 3 bucks a month.  If you have any questions, please contact me.

Steve Krampf

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