Distinguishing voice calls from incoming faxes

letitrain — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 10:17:53 -0800

I have two telephone lines going into my office. If I'm on the first line, the second line rings. I also have a fax connected to the second line. How do I keep the fax from picking up regular phone calls, but make sure it picks up incoming faxes? More details: the phone is this RCA Visys with answering machine. The fax is a Xerox 6115 multifunction. The line coming into the phone is a single wire "line 1 / line 2" and the line going into the fax is line 2 only. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Multiline cell phones?

SpecialK — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 08:28:53 -0800

What cell phone providers will allow you to have two phone lines/ #'s on one phone? I know that T-Mobile won't, and they claim it's a technical restriction with GSM and simm cards, so I'm pretty sure that means that Cingular is out as well.

Basically, I need to retain my old Portland, OR (503) area code number, which I've had for nine years or so, but I need to have my local (979) number for work as well. I've got this set up right now with T-Mobile where I have two phones and two simm cards and one phone simply has forward all calls turned on... but this means that I get charged twice for minutes that come in on the forwarding line, and I have to maintain two accounts. (which is $$$.) It'd be much easier if I could have a multiline phone and choose which number to dial out from.

Bonus if the provider doesn't suck as much as T-Mobile, customer-service wise.

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