Call Forwarding while out of country

I will be in Mexico for a week. This area of Mexico does not have any CDMA service. I bought a cheap AT&T GO phone and some airtime. It only costs $0.25/min to call the US from Mexico on this plan.

I want to set call forwarding on my Verizon phone to forward to my AT&T number. I will set the call forwarding before I leave home. Will the call forwording work while my Verizon phone is out of country, or once the phone leaves the servie area will it cut the call forwarding feature? What if the Verizon phone is off for several days?

I know I will get charged airtime from both Verizon and AT&T, but I never go over my plan minutes with Verizon, so this is a cheap way to "roam" my number while in Mexico. The GSM coverage where I am at is excellent. I just want my family and work contacts to beable to reach me on the number they are used to instead of having to give everyone the AT&T number. Will this work?

Accepted answers

budone

You can take the phone, just be sure to set the call forwarding BEFORE leaving. And the plan you have will work.

A suggestion, if you have F&F, maybe set up the ATT phone number as one of those numbers.

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interspectrum

Anyone have an answer?

SuzyQ

I don't know if it would work or not (why I haven't answered to this point!). It seems if you had your Verizon phone set to do immediate call forwarding (*72 + ATT number), and the Verizon phone was off, it would send the calls to the ATT number.

The difficulty in answering is not knowing what calling options (receiving options) the ATT phone will have while you are in Mexico. You said it costs $.25 a minute to call the US - but will you have reception and ability to receive calls from US numbers while in Mexico? If so, then this should work, set the call forwarding on Verizon, leave the phone home and off.

interspectrum

Thank you so much for your answer. It answers part of my question.

Yes, the ATT phone works perfectly where I will be. I have used it there before, and callers in the US can call the number (A US 623 area code number) and it rings on the ATT phone while it is roaming in Mexico. So as long as I keep the Verizon phone at home and off, you think I should have no issues. Thank you!

My conern is if I take the Verizon phone (a Droid) to Mexico with me so that I can have my contacts and use the phone on wifi with the cell connection off. If I take the Droid to Mexico will this kill the call forwarding?

budone

You can take the phone, just be sure to set the call forwarding BEFORE leaving. And the plan you have will work.

A suggestion, if you have F&F, maybe set up the ATT phone number as one of those numbers.