I can only laugh at your comment.

By your argument we have Flash 10.1. The software and hardware exists but it's just not all connected yet and the bugs not all fixed.

This is standard and basic phone functionality. What is Nokia a leader in making again? Yeah and just a few hundred Million.

I particularly enjoy his last comment.

Basically he's saying "who cares, someone else will do it". It's sad that Nokia isn't willing to implement a feature that's available in just about every other Nokia phone.

And they wonder why we want MeeGo and am concerned that that Nokia has already shelved Maemo 5 to collect dust in the corner.

I totally agree and have just added the following text to the bug.

"I have just spent 30 mins on the phone to Orange Support trying to get a call diversion problem resolved that I could easily have sorted out myself if service codes were supported.
Somehow (and this actually could not have happened but it did!) my phone was diverting *all* calls to my backup phone.
I did not set this to happen and in "settings/phone" call forwarding was set to "no". I do have shortcuts to divert calls to my backup phone in my contact list (left over from previous, standards compliant, phones) but of course, they don't work on the N900. So that can't have been what made it happen."

Responses such as the one quoted (and I said so in my comment on the bug) come across to me as patronising and antagonistic - certainly unhelpful.
In my view this is definitely a bug and should be addressed as such.

I finally resolved the problem by creating ~/.osso/call-ui.ini (it didn't exist) and adding that line. many thanks to those pointing it out which enabled me to resolve my problem, despite the best efforts of Nokia (and for that matter Orange, who seemed unable to understand that my phone doesn't support service codes!)

i still cant dial # or * although i have latest software, would someone kindly explain in details how this can be done?

the call forwarding applet reroutes the call yes. but your cell provider still charges you for all the minutes you talk on forwarded call. im tryin gto set up google voicemail to handle my voicemail. but get error when trying to do code