[Nerd Vittles] Follow-Me Roaming with Asterisk: Transparently Integrating Mobile Phones Into Your Dialplan

Excerpt: If Area 775's $2 a call for forwarding calls to your cell phone is a little too rich for your blood, today we have a special treat. For those who have deployed a free Asterisk@Home PBX or the new VMware version of Asterisk@Home on your Windows desktop, we're going to show just how inexpensively you can deploy Follow-Me Roaming or, more accurately, One-Number Roaming.

 

Callers dial your free DID phone number, and Asterisk will simultaneously ring both your cell phone and your local extensions for every incoming call. If you answer the incoming call on an extension, there's no charge for the call. For calls answered on your cell phone, the cost in the U.S. is about a penny a minute. Not bad!

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