Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: hamlin@blackbird.afit.af.mil (Joe Hamlin) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Choices for a 2nd (data) line at home? Message-ID: Date: 16 Jul 89 01:25:19 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Air Force Institute of Technology; WPAFB, OH Lines: 26 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 241, message 3 of 9 Due to popular demand (by my wife :-), I am considering ordering a second line. This line will only be used for my modem, and only for local out-going calls (mainly for dialing in to work and to a local BBS). After reading a recent article in this group in which the author had to demand some unadvertised service, I was wondering if perhaps there was some little known service I should request. At any rate (no pun), what is the cheapest service that will meet my requirements? Is there such a thing as an out-going only line? Thank you. -- Joe Hamlin [Moderator's Note: Yes, there are one way outgoing only lines. If someone dials the number while you are on it, they get a busy signal. If the number is dialed when it is not in use, it cuts to an intercept message, "The number you dialed, 123-4567 is not in service for incoming calls." I would not personally box myself in in that way. You might want to receiving incoming data calls from time to time; then what? Just keep the number non-published, and get as large a calling area package for the line as your telco allows. PT]