[mdlug] Mobile AP, Cell/Wifi Handset

[Rich Elswick]

Google Voice, when it becomes open for sign ups again, but that could be a
while as well.

On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Peter Bart <peter at petertheplumber.net>wrote:

> On Sat, 4 Jul 2009 15:22:54 GMT
> "gib at juno.com" <gib at juno.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > I just got a Blackberry Bold about a month ago.  I really like that I
> > can connect to wifi an save my minutes.
> >
>
>         So far I've just played with it a few times. It will be very
>        useful for those times I'm buried deep inside a boiler/mech
>        room with no cell signal and wifi onsite. Having to run in
>        and out trying to troubleshoot a piece of equipment over the
>        phone with the manufacturer can get frustrating. Not so much
>        saving on wifi minutes for me though. I am considering buying
>        a call in number though, and having it forwarded. Any
>        thoughts, (dis)recommendations, etc for providers? I'll need
>        to find out if that gets a listing in the phonebook too. It
>        would be very handy to have only one number and forward my calls
>        to whichever handset I may have. Is anybody currently
>        using such a setup that could point me in a direction? I
>        would like to integrate it with an alpha numeric pager I
>        have as well. Currently I get paged by the voicemail system
>        when a caller marks their message urgent.  That lets me keep
>        my pager number semi private, but still allows callers to
>        page me w/o making another call.
>
> Best Regards,
> --
> Peter The Plumber sm
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Rich Elswick