Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: apple!netcom!wasilko@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Jeff Wasilko) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Poor Man's Intercom Message-ID: Date: 14 Nov 89 07:18:25 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Jeff Wasilko Organization: NetCom- The Bay Area's Public Access Unix System {408 997-9175} Lines: 24 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 510, message 9 of 10 In article HGSCHULZ@cs.umass.edu (Henning Schulzrinne) writes: >X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 502, message 7 of 11 >By accident I discovered a way to use the phone for in-house calls: >Dial your own number and hang up immediately after the last digit. All >phones in the house will ring and (hopefully) the person you wanted to >talk will pick it up. Is this a special "feature" of our exchange (we >are part of tiny Granby Telephone Company in Western Mass.) or does >that work everywhere? >Henning Schulzrinne (HGSCHULZ@CS.UMASS.EDU) >Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering >University of Massachusetts at Amherst >Amherst, MA 01003 - USA === phone: (413) 545-3179 (EST); FAX: (413) 545-0724 Out here in Los Angeles, where we are served & abused by GTE (the Great Telephone Experiment) when I dial my own number I get a series of tones. When I hang up, the phone rings back and I am greeted by the same series of tones. Jeff Wasilko