This might seem like a dumb question - but I have never tried this. I have AT&T for my long distance & international on my USA home phone. However - I have a local company for my service, billing and local calls.

If I forward my home phone to my global sim cell phone, would I be charged for international calls from my local provider or will the call forwarding also apply to my ATT long distance?

I Ass-U-Me that it would be charged by your long distance carrier. Why don't you try it and see.

You would surely be charged for the international portion of the call. Who would charge it depends on which you use. Probably AT&T

Let me try & explain better!

My USA local service has horrendous long distance & international rates.
However their local service is good. They provide my phone line & bill.

My long distance/International carrier associated with my home-line is AT&T & I get great rates from them. I get a seperate bill from AT&T for just the long distance & international.

If I forward my home phone to my Global sim cell phone - will my local home line be charging me their high rates or will AT&T who are my chosen longdistance/international carrier automatically bill this call even when forwarded?

AT&T

As Matha said, billing on forwarded LD would be billedl like direccted dialed LD. ATT in this case.
HOWEVER, most local carriers (major exception is Verizon) do NOT permit you to program the system to forward to intl. numbers. SBC does not.
I have had to use www.kall8.com to forwardd calls overseas. Forward my calls to the Kall8 number that then forwards to overseas number.
I am hoping that YackieMobile, being discussed in another thread here, will solve my problem. They give you a "local" number keyed to your intl. SIM. They seem to be a new start up and they won't be sending out SIMS for about a week. No one here has tried them, yet.

...mike

When I used to have a landline in the US, I used Simplicity long distance from Americom. I had no problems forwarding abroad and they had a 10 cent rate to Lichtenstein.

I've since gone VOIP and with my Asterisk box have no problems forwarding abroad. If you want a good forward number which charges no monthly line rental, take a look at Voicestick. It is a VOIP service, but it also offers international call forwarding. Many VOIP providers have stopped international call forwarding because of the high incidents of toll fraud.

Stu

Stu - Thanks for the tip about "voicestick". I just signed up for their "free" service where you can set up CF to an overseas number. In my case to Costa Rica. They charge 5?/min. The lowest rates I could find before this were dial arounds. Pingo at 6?, Tel3advantage at 7?, Onesuite, 8? and Lingo, our main LD carrier (VOIP), 9?. Lingo does provide telco quality and instantaneous connection.
The couple of test calls i made had very good quality - much better than the dial arounds. Connection time was acceptable. There seemed to be some "false" connections (which i was charged for). We'll have to see how that goes.

...mike

Voicestick also has a good virtual calling card feature which is handy.

Their rates to UK mobiles are also pretty good. They have the best rates to the UAE that I have seen.

I also just signed up with voicestick -- primarily because of those rates to UK mobiles (spending 10 days in london next month). I will fwd calls to my voicestick number which will fwd to my Virgin UK mobile (Hopefully!)

Has anybody used the actual USB stick in a public (i.e. internet cafe) computer? I would be interested in how well it worked (and did you run into firewall problems).