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<DIV>I'm looking at extending our voicemail service to cell phones used by the
University. I have been able to get the 'enter your password' prompt when a cell
phone calls a certain number working fine, i.e. they don't have to enter their
userID, but am wondering about the actual forwarding of calls to
voicemail.</DIV>
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<DIV>I understand how to and have successfully forwarded a cell phone to an
extension (through DID) which reaches voicemail fine, but for a number of
reasons, I'd like it to go directly to voicemail. Case in point, if we offer
off-campus forwarding and someone forwards their line to their cell and their
cell to their line .... I don't want to be around when that happens.</DIV>
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<DIV>I have also successfully got a cell phone to forward to a person's
voicemail box by forwarding it to a DID which itself is a CTI route point
forwarded to Unity and is added an alternate extension. This does not seem
scalable to me (although still doable). We would also have to purchase an
additional DID for each customer. Our primary goal is cost savings, so having to
pay $4 /mth for a DID doesn't really save much.</DIV>
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<DIV>What I'd like to see is to have one DID that all cell phones can forward
to, and for CallManager and Unity to understand that the phone was forwarded
from a particular number and then for that specific mailbox to answer. The DID
would still be a CTI route point forwarded to Unity, but CallManager would know
to send the forwarded number to Unity so the appropriate mailbox would
answer.</DIV>
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<DIV>I saw a few posts in the forums which say I need RDNIS and to enable
re-directing IE on my gateways. But the poster hasn't replied back to see if
this would work.</DIV>
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<DIV>And finally, I would want MWI to the cell phone. I understand that an
actual MWI is not possible, but I like the idea that I can use SMS as message
notification. I see that it requires an SMPP provider, and haven't had much
experience with these.</DIV>
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<DIV>Just wondering if anyone out there has got this working out there.</DIV>
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<DIV>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>Lelio
Fulgenzi, B.A.<BR>Network Analyst (CCS) * University of Guelph * Guelph, Ontario
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