Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!attctc!vector!telecom-gateway From: westmark!dave@uunet.uu.net (Dave Levenson) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Making a Line Busy Message-ID: Date: 16 Oct 89 02:43:54 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Westmark, Inc., Warren, NJ, USA Lines: 27 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 452, message 3 of 6 In article , owens-christopher@YALE. EDU (Christopher Owens) writes: > I have a two-line residential installation in which calls hunt to the > second line if the first line is busy. Periodically I want to force > all calls to the second line. What is the correct way to make a line > busy? ... There is a local number available in most central offices that is always busy. Here in NJ, we dial almost any prefix followed by 9970. You could place a call to that number, and then leave your set offhook. There is a tariffed service available in NJ called hunting cut-off controlled by customer. With this service, you get a key switch at your premises connected to an extra pair from the CO. When you close the switch, hunting is disabled. (Don't know what it costs.) I realize that what you want is not to disable hunting but to force it on all calls. Perhaps the telco has another service offering up its sleeve? Dave Levenson Voice: (201) 647 0900 Westmark, Inc. Internet: dave@westmark.uu.net Warren, NJ, USA UUCP: {uunet | rutgers | att}!westmark!dave [The Man in the Mooney] AT&T Mail: !westmark!dave