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From: jdominey@bsga05.attmail.com
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Subject: Re: Speakerphones and the Courts
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Date: 9 Oct 90 13:26:08 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 726, Message 2 of 12


In v10 #715, Jeff Carroll <bcsaic!carroll@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
writes:

>Only that anyone who has ever talked to a person using a
>speakerphone would know immediately whether one is in use....

Warning!  The phone on my desk, a fairly common AT&T model for System
85/ Generic 2, has a speaker, but no external microphone.  When I use
the speaker, anyone in my office can hear the conversation.  Because I
still speak into the handset, the person on the other end will not
hear the telltale speakerphone cut-in/cut-out.

I wish home speakerphones would use this arrangement, as it would
allow my wife and me to "share" calls without subjecting the other
party to that annoying speakerphone sound.