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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
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Subject: Re: Can One Disable Call-Waiting If *70 Doesn't Work?
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In article <9217@accuvax.nwu.edu>, john@bovine (John Higdon) writes:

| I am curious, though. Why would anyone have call waiting on a data
| line?

Cuz sometimes we use voice lines for "data" lines.

I live in GTE-land (boo hiss!) and they only recently added
call-waiting disable to my home phone exchange (switch?).  Before
that, I simply forwarded my phone to my answering service.  That's the
other way around it -- get call forwarding.


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