Having your cell phone ring when someone calls your landlines

Question

Hello,
First sorry if this is the wrong area.
My Aunt was telling me how at their house they got rid of their landlines service, but was able to keep their number.  Using equipment from verizon they were able to hook up something she said looked like a router and when someone would call the landlines number one of the cell phones would ring. 
She wasn't really sure what it was called, but she said her husband got the equipment and all from Verizon.  Can anyone tell me what this service is called and where on the website I can look at it to read more about it?
Thanks 

Answer 1

I'm not about a piece of equipment that allows this, but here are a couple options to do what you're looking for:
1) Port your landline number to Verizon as a wireless number.  This will completely close your account with your landline service provider, and your number will now be attached to your cell phone with Verizon.  It should be fairly simple to do, just call Verizon or visit a store to get the process started.
2) Forward your current landline to a cell phone.  If you only want your landline calls to go to your cellphone when you aren't there to answer, you could set up conditional call forwarding on your landline and point it to your cell phone.  You would keep your landline service, and this option would make sense if you want to use the landline when you are home, but get calls from that number sent to your cellphone when you aren't there to answer.  Different companies have different procedures and possibly charges for this service, you'd have to call your landline provider to find out.
If you want to be done with the landline service completely, just port the number to Verizon.  If you want to keep it, set up forwarding.