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From: JDurand@cup.portal.com
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Subject: Re: Disabling Call Waiting
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Date: 29 Oct 90 17:18:06 GMT
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I had a problem with one of the "free" options that comes with a
business GTE Mobilnet cellular account, call waiting.  For various
reasons I do not want call waiting active at any time and have figured
out how to disable it until I wish to turn it back on.  There is an
option for FORWARD-ON-BUSY (*74) and if you program this to forward
back to your own cellular number, a call which would normally generate
the call waiting clunk will now just get a busy.  I have had my
service programmed this way for over a month and it seems to work fine
(no infinite loops).

I don't know if you can set something like this up on regular phone
lines, but it could let people turn off call waiting for extended
periods such as when you go out and don't want your answering machine
interrupted or have a BBS active at night.


Jerry Durand, Durand Interstellar, Inc., jdurand@cup.portal.com, 408 356-3886