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From: leue@galen.crd.ge.com (Bill Leue)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Disable Call Waiting?
Keywords: modem, call waiting
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Date: 13 Sep 90 19:39:53 GMT
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A friend of mine is having problems with using a modem on his
telephone line, which has call waiting.  Every time an incoming call
happens, he gets the "beep" tone, which usually clobbers his
modem connection to the remote host.  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.

Does anyone know whether there is any general method for
disabling call waiting?  Would it even be the same from
one town to another if the local phone company used different
switches?  If you have any experience in this area, I'd
appreciate an email message or a posting.

Thanks!
-Bill Leue
leue@crd.ge.com