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unusual facts about call forwarding


Call forwarding

A Markham business with a forwarded area code 416 Toronto number could receive calls from Malton airport in Mississauga without incurring long-distance charges (as Malton → Toronto and Toronto → Markham are each a local call).


Supplementary service codes

ETSI and 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standards, such as GSM and LTE, define supplementary service codes that make it possible to query and set certain service parameters (e.g., call forwarding) directly from mobile devices.


see also

Personal Digital Cellular

The services include voice (full and half-rate), supplementary services (call waiting, voice mail, three-way calling, call forwarding, and so on), data service (up to 9.6 kbit/s CSD), and packet-switched wireless data (up to 28.8 kbit/s PDC-P).

Rahnfels

During the Cold War there was a US Forces radio relay site and a telephone call forwarding facility for the DSN network on the southern side of the summit.