1 phone-2 numbers?

Jay <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> I split my time between my St. Louis office and a branch in Tampa.
>
> I heard that you can get 2 numbers on 1 phone?
> Could I get a Tampa area code number added to my phone? (Moto V400)

AFAIK, no. However you might see if Cingular allows a family plan to
be split amongst two area codes- one phone w/a Tampa #, and one with a
St. Louis number, and set one to forward to the other so both numbers
ring on one phone.

T-Mobile allows family plan phones to have different area codes.

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>T-Mobile allows family plan phones to have different area codes.

Sprint PCS does too.

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In article <[email protected]>, Jer <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I'm unaware of any cellular handset that allows more than one NAM to be
> active during the same nanosecond.

And you haven't read the thread enough to know that Nextel has been
doing this for some time.

Ok, thanks for the repsonses, but I don't know a NAM from PAM.
It sounds like Cingular doesn't have the ability, and I just re-upped for
another 2 years. (2 months ago)

I asked a couple of mopes at the Cingular kiosks at the mall and got blank
stares. I tried to contact customer support at Cingular, but it appears there is
no one that can answer a phone at Cingular.

So far the 800 # seems doable, but I'm still a little lost.
Do I just find some carrier that offers 800 numbers and have it assigned to my
cell phone #, or can I change where it rings at? A few years ago I had
remote-call forwarding but it was a little cumbersome.

Thanks for all the ideas and answers!
J

>And you haven't read the thread enough to know that Nextel has been
>doing this for some time.

But Nextel isn't Cellular. The previous poster was 100% correct.

You are the one that obviously needs to be paying attention!


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Elmo P. Shagnasty wrote:

> In article <[email protected]>, Jer <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>
>>I'm unaware of any cellular handset that allows more than one NAM to be
>>active during the same nanosecond.
>
>
> And you haven't read the thread enough to know that Nextel has been
> doing this for some time.
>

I'm sorry, I didn't intend to exclude any qualified handset with my
comment. For some reason, I've understood Nextel handsets were IDEN
instead of cellular. My bad.

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what we know." -- Richard Wilbur

In article <[email protected]>, Jer <[email protected]>
wrote:

> For some reason, I've understood Nextel handsets were IDEN
> instead of cellular. My bad.

Diesel or gas, it's still a car. The technology under the hood doesn't
matter; the fact is, it makes and receives phone calls. Call it what
you will; society has settled on "cell phone". So be it.

If you want to get picky about what's under the hood, that's fine--but
don't expect anyone else to (a) know, or (b) care. Nextel phones can
have two phone numbers assigned to them at once, others can't/won't.

And guess what: they're all wireless, they're all portable, and they're
all phones.

In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected]pamfree (John S.) wrote:

> >And you haven't read the thread enough to know that Nextel has been
> >doing this for some time.
>
> But Nextel isn't Cellular. The previous poster was 100% correct.
>
> You are the one that obviously needs to be paying attention!

They're all wireless, they're all portable, and they're all phones.

I guess you'd look at a diesel car and say it's not a car, because it
doesn't run on gas like cars do. Trucks run on diesel, cars run on gas.
Whatever you want to think. Guess what? Society calls them all "cell
phones". They walk like a duck and quack like a duck and swim like a
duck; they're all ducks.

>They walk like a duck and quack like a duck and swim like a
>duck; they're all ducks.

And stupidity comes in all forms.

What is it that you look like?

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Elmo P. Shagnasty wrote:

> In article <[email protected]>, Jer <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>
>>For some reason, I've understood Nextel handsets were IDEN
>>instead of cellular. My bad.
>
>
> Diesel or gas, it's still a car. The technology under the hood doesn't
> matter; the fact is, it makes and receives phone calls. Call it what
> you will; society has settled on "cell phone". So be it.

Well, my guess is you've not coasted your '59 Austin-Healey Sprite
through the welcome doors of a modern Chevrolet repair shop - trust me,
EPS, the technology under the hood matters a great deal to those fine
individuals. Considering that, I'm not that certain technology doesn't
matter on this point, either. I'm certainly no cell phone guru, but
maybe one is floating around here somewhere and will kindly stick a nose
in this thread to help us all understand better why Nextel does dual-NAM
tricks and the others don't.

>
> If you want to get picky about what's under the hood, that's fine--but
> don't expect anyone else to (a) know, or (b) care. Nextel phones can
> have two phone numbers assigned to them at once, others can't/won't.

Then, your position also includes both numbers are simultaneously
usable, without the need to manually switch from one to the other?
(Since that was the original point of the poster that started this thread)

>
> And guess what: they're all wireless, they're all portable, and they're
> all phones.
>


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what we know." -- Richard Wilbur

In article <[email protected]>, Jer <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Then, your position also includes both numbers are simultaneously
> usable, without the need to manually switch from one to the other?
> (Since that was the original point of the poster that started this thread)

Yes.

In article <[email protected]>, Jer <[email protected]>
wrote:

> > Diesel or gas, it's still a car. The technology under the hood doesn't
> > matter; the fact is, it makes and receives phone calls. Call it what
> > you will; society has settled on "cell phone". So be it.
>
> Well, my guess is you've not coasted your '59 Austin-Healey Sprite
> through the welcome doors of a modern Chevrolet repair shop - trust me,
> EPS, the technology under the hood matters a great deal to those fine
> individuals.

Sure, a Chevy dealer doesn't care what makes a Honda go. But society
calls them all cars. And society calls Nextel a cell phone, no matter
what's under the hood.

But you sit in your world and refuse to acknowledge that, for all
intents and purposes, Nextel is a cell phone.

An engineer cares as he's engineering the thing. But he doesn't
engineer it for the sake of engineering it; he engineers it to be used.
By people. People who call it a cell phone.

You really can separate the two concepts and acknowledge them as being
equally valid. You simply refuse to.

Elmo P. Shagnasty wrote:

> In article <[email protected]>, Jer <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>
>>>Diesel or gas, it's still a car. The technology under the hood doesn't
>>>matter; the fact is, it makes and receives phone calls. Call it what
>>>you will; society has settled on "cell phone". So be it.
>>
>>Well, my guess is you've not coasted your '59 Austin-Healey Sprite
>>through the welcome doors of a modern Chevrolet repair shop - trust me,
>>EPS, the technology under the hood matters a great deal to those fine
>>individuals.
>
>
> Sure, a Chevy dealer doesn't care what makes a Honda go.

He/she better if he/she volunteers to fix it.

> But society
> calls them all cars. And society calls Nextel a cell phone, no matter
> what's under the hood.
>
> But you sit in your world and refuse to acknowledge that, for all
> intents and purposes, Nextel is a cell phone.
>
> An engineer cares as he's engineering the thing. But he doesn't
> engineer it for the sake of engineering it; he engineers it to be used.
> By people. People who call it a cell phone.
>
> You really can separate the two concepts and acknowledge them as being
> equally valid. You simply refuse to.

I'm not refusing a thing Elmo P, I (and maybe a few lurkers) am simply
trying to understand how a Nextel handset can answer up for two
different numbers simultaneously when others can't. I'm fairly certain
the answer is buried in a technology thing, unless Nextel incorporates a
crystal ball inside all their IDEN handsets.

I'm not denying the capability, I'm trying to understand the difference.


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"All that we do is touched with ocean, yet we remain on the shore of
what we know." -- Richard Wilbur

In article <[email protected]>, Jer <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I'm not refusing a thing Elmo P, I (and maybe a few lurkers) am simply
> trying to understand how a Nextel handset can answer up for two
> different numbers simultaneously when others can't.

Or won't.

Nextel tends not to cater to the same audience that the rest of the
carriers cater to. They focus strictly on voice and data for business
use. Any non-business use is incidental to them.

The other carriers, on the other hand, focus on and cater to personal
"entertainment" use. Hence the cameras, chat, etc. Any business use is
incidental to them. Their REAL income is from frivolous use by younger
people who have no concept of money, who spend everything they get.

It's not a matter of can't; it's a matter of won't. It's the business
plan.

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In <[email protected]> on Sun, 29 Aug 2004 17:10:09 -0500, Jer
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Elmo P. Shagnasty wrote:
>
>> In article <[email protected]>, Jer <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>I'm unaware of any cellular handset that allows more than one NAM to be
>>>active during the same nanosecond.
>>
>> And you haven't read the thread enough to know that Nextel has been
>> doing this for some time.
>
>I'm sorry, I didn't intend to exclude any qualified handset with my
>comment. For some reason, I've understood Nextel handsets were IDEN
>instead of cellular. My bad.

And of course not usable on Cingular, the subject of this newsgroup.

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