Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!texbell!chinacat!telecom-gateway From: apple!netcom!edg@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Edward Greenberg) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: "Intercom Plus" by Pacific Bell Message-ID: Date: 29 Nov 89 20:00:51 GMT Sender: news@chinacat.Lonestar.ORG Reply-To: Edward Greenberg Organization: NetCom- The Bay Area's Public Access Unix System {408 997-9175} Lines: 39 Approved: telecom-request@chinacat.lonestar.org X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 542, message 1 of 7 Last month, my phone bill advertised a little service called Intercom Plus. Being the phone junkie I am, I called up the business office and ordered it right up. I'll spare you the details of how the business office didn't understand this, or what I went through to get it, and tell about the service. I'll describe the service in technical terms rather than marketing fluff. 1. You pick up the phone and dial one of three codes, and hang up. The phone rings back, and when you pick up you get talking battery. 2. You're talking to somebody and want to signal somebody else in the house to pick up. You flash, dial one of the three codes, and hang up. The phone rings back and you wait until the other party picks up. (Then you optionally pick up too, depending on whether you wanted to continue to participate.) For the above two services, the codes are: *51 short-short *52 short-short-long *53 short-long-short 3. Extension hold. You want to put a call on hold. You flash, hit *54 and hang up. Your call sits until picked up or the other party hangs up. 4. Three way calling. Since the service requires the ability to flash, it requires Three Way calling. They bundle three-way in, so if you had it before, you stop paying for it separately. Pacific Bell sells this for $4 per month. -edg Ed Greenberg +1 415-694-2952 (day) uunet!apple!netcom!edg edg@cso.3mail.3com.com 76703,1070 on CompuServe