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Active Movie - I just moved to a building that requires a local phone number for thedoor-intercom system to work. Everyone knows my old (cell) phonenumber, and I have no reason to change it or stop using it, and I haveno need for any home telephone service other than my cell phone, but Ineed a local number. So I'm wondering: what's the cheapest way to geta local phone number which will forward to my cell?Thanks.-Joel[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Telcos which provide (Enterphone)service or private contractors which provide (Interphone) serviceusually generally have it rigged up so that door-to-apartment calls*cannot* be forwarded off premises. You probably would not want tohave someone be able to remotely open your door when you were notthere; it is a security matter, that is why no forwarding isavailable on Enter (Inter) phone service. If telco is supplying theservice, it works sort of like a gerry-rigged centrex. The lobbyphone gets dial tone from the central office and the caller dialsusually a two or three digit number associated with your name inthe lobby directory. You must tell your visitor your apartment number;it is not obvious from the dialed code number. When you agree toadmit the caller and dial a '4' or '6' or whatever, the centraloffice pulses the front door latch to allow it to open so the callercan hang up the phone and walk into the building. If you do not haveexternal phone service, then telco's contract with the buildingmanagement (which pays for the service) calls for telco to provideyou with a phone to operate the door only.Now if your building has the service from a private contractor itis called Interphone since the telco (at least years ago) had a patenton 'Enterphone'. The private contractor usually has a 'computer likebox' in the basement or wherever telco enters the premises and the'box' functions like a little switchboard sort of like telco andall the house pairs terminate in this box with the outside trunklines coming in. It is quite transparent in that the 'box' just sitsthere silently when you make an outgoing call; but when an incomingcall **from the front door** comes in the box does two things: ittests your line for busy; if you are not talking it gives you adistinctive ring (same as telco; to aid you in identifying the sourceof the call) and if your line *is* busy it sends you a distinctivecall waiting tone (again, same as telco, even if you do not alreadyhave call-waiting) so you can flash, the box puts your outside callon hold and gives you the door call.Like telco's (non-subscriber) service where any old phone can beplugged into the place on the wall where the phone plugs in, **noactual phone number is needed** since telco (or the privatecontractor) provides battery as needed to operate the phone when itgets called from the door. So if your building has one of those twotypes of service (Enter/Interphone) don't bother with calling telco toget phone service; just plug some cheap phone into the jack; it willring as needed and allow talking as needed for the front door intercomfunction. When there is not someone at the door talking to you, thephone will otherwise be dead. In any event (Enter or Inter) **callforwarding will not work**. Contractor's box won't do it and telcowon't provide it, mainly for security reasons.But there is a *third* type of front door service, always privatecontractor. Sort of cheesy, IMO. In that system, front door persondials your code (never actual apartment number) and the premises'box' does a quick look up of your real seven-digit number then placesa phone call to that seven-digit number and bridges them together whenyou answer (if you are home and do answer). Its sort of like a fancyspeed dial type thing. On that kind, you *can* do what you want andhave it call forwarded or run to an answering machine or wherever,although IMO it is ill advised for security reasons. Do you want thevisitor to know you are not home because the door (speed dial typephone) forwards to wherever? There is an exception to the **no for-wa
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