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From: ar4@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Piper Keairnes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Disabling call waiting
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Date: 28 Nov 90 00:03:44 GMT
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agw@cs.columbia.edu (Art Werschulz) writes:

>Is there some way to selectively disable call waiting by punching in
>a code at the telephone keypad?

Typical dialing string, "*70,999-9999"

This worked for several years, but recently the *70 prefix results in one of
those annoying recordings. Try it and see if it works. The prefix only turns
off call waiting for the remainder of that call. It does not affect your
long-term call-waiting service.

Does anyone know why this would no longer work? Have the Bell companies
started charging us to be able to turn off a service we are paying for?

_____
Piper Keairnes
ar4@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Purdue University)