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From: cca@cs.exeter.ac.uk (Clive Carmock)
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Subject: Re: Knowing You're a Call Waiting Beep
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Date: 14 Aug 90 20:32:25 GMT
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It was interesting to read that the US phone system doesn't
distinguish calls waiting calls from any other sort.

Here in the UK if you call a line that has call waiting activated and
the phone is in use you get DEe Daa Daa The number called is busy,
we're trying to connect your call please hold the line.  This is
repeated over and over until the called party answers or after thirty
seconds when the exhange will time out and say 'Sorry your call could
not be connected, please try later'.


Clive Carmock