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If a Verizon wireless number calls my Verizon wireless number, and my number forwards to my Verizon landline in the same local calling area, am I charged airtime for the forwarded minutes?

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Spiral

FMC wrote:
If a Verizon wireless number calls my Verizon wireless number, and my number forwards to my Verizon landline in the same local calling area, am I charged airtime for the forwarded minutes?

I believe the answer is Yes. You are, in effect calling your landline from your wireless line which would incur airtime charges.

If you are on a friends and family plan of course you could then make your landline one of the numbers that was included in that service to eliminate those charges.

Jax_Omen

Call forwarding works like this: Incoming caller uses whatever kind of minutes they would use if you answered the phone. So if they're VzW it's M2M, etc. Forwarded number uses whatever kind of minutes they would use if you called them from your phone. So if you're forwarding to another VzW phone it's M2M, etc. This means if you're forwarding to a landline AND that landline is not on your friends and family, every forwarded call is using 1-2 anytime minutes per minute, depending on whether they are VzW or not. Of course, if it's after 9pm, or saturday or sunday, Nights and Weekends take over anyway. So yeah, if you're forwarding your cell to a landline OR vice-versa (because forwarding from landline to cell counts as a call from the landline), make sure that landline is on your F&F list beforehand.

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