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From: anderson@Apple.COM (Clark Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Disable Call Waiting?
Keywords: modem, call waiting
Message-ID: <44793@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 13 Sep 90 22:17:56 GMT
References: <11860@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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From: leue@galen.crd.ge.com (Bill Leue):
>The instructions for
>his communications program tell him that he can disable call
>waiting by keying in "* 70" on the phone keypad and waiting
>for the second dialtone.  However, he never gets the second
>dialtone when he tries it.

You won't get a second dial tone with some exchanges.
My sister had the same problem. What she has to do is pick
up the phone, dial *70, (for some reason, it doesn't work
when I program the modem to do it), then have the modem
dial the number. After the modem dials, gently hang up
the receiver.
                                --clark

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