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Call Forwarding in Asia

Grace2019 — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 09:29:43 GMT

Can I forward my phone to the local mobile phone in China? What charge will be involved other than my China cel charges? Thanks.

Re: Call Forwarding in Asia

austinhuang — Sat, 20 Apr 2019 18:19:32 GMT

@Grace2019 wrote:
Can I forward my phone to the local mobile phone in China? What charge will be involved other than my China cel charges? Thanks.

I don't think call forwarding is there for cell phone services. They're usually for landline & business phones. They're also usually offered as a paid addon (Seems to be $3/month, see Koodo, Fido), and there's no such addon in PM, so the answer will probably be "no".

Okay, PM might offer call forwarding in the plan but few people tried it. This thread suggests that it's only for Canadian numbers, so the answer is still a "no".

Re: Call Forwarding in Asia

hairbag1 — Sat, 20 Apr 2019 18:12:56 GMT

There's never any additional charges at PM. If you didn't pay for it ahead...you don't have it.

Re: Call Forwarding in Asia

Triguy — Sat, 20 Apr 2019 18:30:27 GMT

https://www.publicmobile.ca/en/bc/get-help/articles/call-forwarding

Looks like not available for overseas phone number.

Re: Call Forwarding in Asia

austinhuang — Sat, 20 Apr 2019 18:18:40 GMT

@Triguy wrote:
https://www.publicmobile.ca/en/bc/get-help/articles/call-forwarding

But here it says you set it up in your own phone... it's prob just confusing

Re: Call Forwarding in Asia

cavemantoronto — Sat, 20 Apr 2019 18:19:54 GMT

@Grace2019 wrote:
Can I forward my phone to the local mobile phone in China? What charge will be involved other than my China cel charges? Thanks.

No. You can't forward you number to a number in China. Forwarding only to Canadian numbers works.

Re: Call Forwarding in Asia

geopublic — Sun, 21 Apr 2019 04:52:53 GMT

@Grace2019 wrote:
Can I forward my phone to the local mobile phone in China? What charge will be involved other than my China cel charges? Thanks.

Here is a good reference to use as a workaround.

Re: Call Forwarding in Asia

mimmo — Sun, 21 Apr 2019 05:40:52 GMT

As mentioned you can only call forward to canadian numbers.

Forwarding is done on the server sideand it can only be done in canada or in the USA when connected to one of the partner networks.

Re: Call Forwarding in Asia

srlawren — Sun, 21 Apr 2019 16:09:24 GMT

@geopublic wrote:
@Grace2019 wrote:
Can I forward my phone to the local mobile phone in China? What charge will be involved other than my China cel charges? Thanks.
Here is a good reference to use as a workaround.

@Grace2019 please see the article @geopublic linked, this may work well for you.

@slash407 wrote:
i wouldnt do that if i were u, theres better options, plenty. Im sure u'll get dinged bad if u did it through PM

@slash407 you wouldn't do what? Forward to a Chinese phone number? It doesn't matter what you would or wouldn't do, because if you bothered to read the thread before responding, you'd have seen that you literally cannot forward to a non-Canadian phone number. Please, just stop.

Re: Call Forwarding in Asia

dabr — Sun, 21 Apr 2019 18:19:33 GMT

@srlawren wrote:
@geopublic wrote:
@Grace2019 wrote:
Can I forward my phone to the local mobile phone in China? What charge will be involved other than my China cel charges? Thanks.
Here is a good reference to use as a workaround.
@Grace2019 please see the article @geopublic linked, this may work well for you.

@slash407 wrote:
i wouldnt do that if i were u, theres better options, plenty. Im sure u'll get dinged bad if u did it through PM
@slash407 you wouldn't do what? Forward to a Chinese phone number? It doesn't matter what you would or wouldn't do, because if you bothered to read the thread before responding, you'd have seen that you literally cannot forward to a non-Canadian phone number. Please, just stop.

Yes @slash407 responses have been quite curious lately, maybe having an off week.

Re: Call Forwarding in Asia

computergeek541 — Sun, 21 Apr 2019 18:22:49 GMT

@slash407 wrote:
i wouldnt do that if i were u, theres better options, plenty. Im sure u'll get dinged bad if u did it through PM

Since Public Mobile won"t allow the user to forward your calls to a number in China, how would the member get dinged? Even if Public Mobile did allow it, customers can't do anything with the service that hasn't been paid for as there are no pay-per-use charges.