{"id":737,"date":"2005-01-07T09:29:29","date_gmt":"2005-01-07T15:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2005\/01\/07\/call-forwarding-racket\/"},"modified":"2005-01-07T09:39:08","modified_gmt":"2005-01-07T15:39:08","slug":"call-forwarding-racket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2005\/01\/07\/call-forwarding-racket\/","title":{"rendered":"Call Forwarding = Racket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, remember <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2004\/12\/23\/some-thoughts-on-telecommunications-technologies\/\">how I was all excited to find that call forwarding feature<\/a> on my phone? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dancelikeamonkey.com\/\">Eric N.<\/a> said &#8220;Make sure they aren&#8217;t charging you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I called them up to make sure that, yes, it would not cost additional money, just minutes on my plan.<\/p>\n<p>Got my bill for the last month today. Nice $43.15 additional charge applied for call forwarding usage.<\/p>\n<p>*blink, blink*<\/p>\n<p>So I called them up and they credited me, no argument or anything, but seriously.<\/p>\n<p>I figured out what the trick was&#8230; &#8220;minutes on my plan&#8221; is the same thing as &#8220;minutes billed as if you went over your available minutes for the month&#8221; back when I had the 350 minute plan with Qwest , and I would talk for 500 minutes, those extra 150 minutes were like $50? Yeah&#8230; same deal.<\/p>\n<p>So we&#8217;re back to the old arrangement.. no call forwarding&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone use call forwading on their cell phones?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, remember how I was all excited to find that call forwarding feature on my phone? Eric N. said &#8220;Make sure they aren&#8217;t charging you.&#8221; I called them up to make sure that, yes, it would not cost additional money, just minutes on my plan. Got my bill for the last month today. Nice $43.15 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf4VN-bT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}