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Actually this obsession started several years ago when my mobile phone company T Mobile US abruptly took away something I had grown accostomed to namely the ability to forward calls to my local sim card while in Europe (and at that time international cards were not necessarily available for a reasonable or what I considered a reasonable) price and if I was doing a London, Paris, Holland thing, it was easier to simply program the call forwarding then to give them all the local numbers (this was cheaper for me then of course doing international roaming either on the US side or with any of the local sims)

Along came riiing (UM) but T Mobile withdrew this. Luckily for me, I may have one of the few landline lines that allow remote call forwarding to international numbers that is from a remote location I can change the number so now, it doesn't matter where in the world I am and what sim card I am using, I can program my landline to ring to it.....allows me to keep in touch with friends and business associates wherever I am and they only have to dial my home number...if I didn't have that ability, then I would probably have gone for voicestick (I got it anyway but it was free) or something like that to accomplish the same thing.