Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!sun-barr!texsun!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: munnari!batserver.cs.uq.oz.au!anthony@uunet.uu.net (Anthony Lee) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: New Services Offered by Southern Bell Message-ID: Date: 2 Sep 89 06:50:01 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: anthony%batserver.cs.uq.OZ@uunet.uu.net Organization: Computer Science Department, The University of Queensland, Lines: 33 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 343, message 6 of 7 In article "Pa3ul D. Anderson" writes: >"TouchStar services from Southern Bell-- six remarkable telephone services >that give you more from your phone-- more control, more security and >more convenience. Besides the question of privacy does the flyer say anything about how many services you can have together on the same phone (disregarding cost ?). Does it say whether certain services are incompatible ? Any other people out there had experience with using those services ? Does any one know on average how many services the average customers subscribed ? It is nice to see people posting articles about supplementary services instead of the usual complaints about quality of service. cheers Anthony Anthony Lee (Humble PhD student) (alias Doctor(Time Lord)) ACSnet: anthony@batserver.cs.uq.oz TEL:(+617) 3712651 Internet: anthony@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (+617) 3774139 (w) SNAIL: 243 Carmody Rd, St Lucia, Queensland 4067, Australia [Moderator's Note: I use those extra services here. In Chicago, they are called 'Starline Service'. They pretty well all work in harmony, but where there is a conflict, then an established order prevails. For example, 'call forwarding' takes precedence over 'transfer on busy or no answer' when the transfer is made. Incoming calls direct to the number being forwarded will forward. Calls routed to that line due to busy or no answer elsewhere are NOT forwarded, but ring through despite forwarding being turned on. I have not done a detailed explanation of Starline in quite awhile; if there is interest, I will post it again. PT]