Russell Beattie

Duh.

I'm an idiot sometimes. I really am. I've been wanting to try moving to my T-Mobile SideKick and my Verizon phones for months now, but I've been thinking that it'd be a complete pain to switch phone numbers just for a short time (both of those phones require different networks). I was explaining this to a co worker the other day and they said, simply, "Why don't you just use call forwarding?" Uhh... Why that's a good question... why don't I?

I've got to find a better syncing solution for my contacts - and in fact, I need to clean my contacts up quite a bit, I've got a lot of people's numbers in there that I never call - but using Call Forwarding for a month or two while I try out phones is a great idea! I just did a search and found these call forwarding instructions for Cingular and ATT Wireless. Perfect!

For old AT&T Wireless accounts:

• Immediate Call Forwarding: Dial *21* plus the 10-digit number to which your calls should be forwarded and #. Press Send.
• Busy Call Forwarding: Dial *67* plus the 10-digit number to which your calls should be forwarded and #. Press Send.
• Call Forwarding No Reply: Dial *61* plus the 10-digit number to which your calls should be forwarded and #. Press Send.
• Call Forwarding Not Reachable: Dial *62* plus the 10-digit number to which your calls should be forwarded and #. Press Send.

Perfect. That should work. Maybe I'll just do the Call Forwarding, No Reply and that way I don't have to worry about which phone I grab in the morning... Yeah, this'll cost a bit more, but I'm already paying for pretty much unused accounts already.

-Russ