Heya team!
I wrote about conditional call forwarding way back here: https: //productioncommunity.publicmobile.ca/t5/Using-Your-Service/Fun-with-Conditional-Call-forward...
In brief, there are three types of "conditional" call forwarding - all are set to Public Mobile voicemail by default, but can be changed: When busy (or blocked, declined), when offline (ie airplane mode), and when no answer .
You can use these to utilize voicemail from another provider - for example, if you sign up for a free account from YouMail, fongo mobile, TextNow, your unanswered and missed calls will be sent to your number at these systems - and the first two will send you an email with a sound file attachment of the voicemail. YouMail will even try to transcribe it to text as well which works very well, and most of the time you don't even have to listen to the message! If you are traveling outside of Canada without a roaming plan, this will allow you to continue to receive voicemails, and if on Wifi, potentially continue to receive calls forwarded to these services as well.
Then there is "unconditional" call forwarding that always immediately forwards, regardless of the state of the phone. I use this sometimes when I'm at work, or at home and would like to have my incoming calls go to a "higher quality" connection ...
So .. here's the commands you can dial:
Query conditional no answer forward: * # 61 #
Set conditional no answer forward: * 61 * xxxyyyzzzz #
Reset conditional no answer forward back to Public Mobile Default: ## 61 #
