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  2. Call forwarding - Wikipedia

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    Call forwarding, or call diversion, is a telephony feature of all telephone switching systems which redirects a telephone call to another destination, which may be, for example, a mobile or another telephone number where the desired called party is available. Call forwarding was invented by Ernest J. Bonanno.

  3. Voicemail - Wikipedia

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    The voicemail system answered the call and the caller could leave a long, detailed message. As soon as the message was received, the voicemail system would trigger the citizen's pager. When the page was received, the citizen would find a pay phone and call in to pick up the message. This concept was used successfully in South America and South ...

  4. List of SIP response codes - Wikipedia

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    181 Call is Being Forwarded Servers can optionally send this response to indicate a call is being forwarded. [1]: §21.1.3 182 Queued Indicates that the destination was temporarily unavailable, so the server has queued the call until the destination is available. A server may send multiple 182 responses to update progress of the queue.

  5. Google Voice - Wikipedia

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    It is used for call forwarding and voicemail services, voice and text messaging, as well as U.S. and international calls. Calls are forwarded to the phone number that each user must configure in the account web portal. Users can answer and receive calls on any of the phones configured [7] to ring in the web portal. While answering a call, the ...

  6. List of telephony terminology - Wikipedia

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    Call originator - (or calling party, caller or A-party) a person or device that initiates a telephone call by dialling a telephone number. Call waiting - a system that notifies a caller of another incoming telephone call by sounding a sound in the earpiece. Called party - (or callee or B-party) Caller; Calling party; Conference call (multi ...

  7. Routing in the PSTN - Wikipedia

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    Each time a call is placed for routing, the destination number (also known as the called party) is entered by the calling party into their terminal. The destination number generally has two parts, an area code which generally identifies the geographical location of the destination telephone, and a telephone number unique within that area code that determines the specific destination terminal.

  8. Forwarding - Wikipedia

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    Remote call forwarding, a telephony feature that allows call forwarding to be activated remotely; Cisco Express Forwarding, an advanced layer 3 switching technology used mainly on the enterprise core network or the Internet; Mail forwarding, a service that redirects mail from one address to another Email forwarding, the re-sending of an email ...

  9. Voice over IP - Wikipedia

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    VoIP solutions aimed at businesses have evolved into unified communications services that treat all communications—phone calls, faxes, voice mail, e-mail, web conferences, and more—as discrete units that can all be delivered via any means and to any handset, including cellphones. Two kinds of service providers are operating in this space ...