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From: km@mathcs.emory.edu (Ken Mandelberg)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Caller ID and Call Waiting (and TB/PEP)
Message-ID: <6723@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>
Date: 3 Jan 91 14:46:59 GMT
Organization: Math & Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
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There's been a lot of talk about caller id in this group lately, so I
thought I would add a caller id question, only indirectly related to
modems.

What happens if you have Call Waiting and Caller ID, and a call comes
in while your connected elsewhere? I presume what happens is you just
don't get any caller id info on the waiting call, whether or not you
accept it. My understanding is that the caller id info is part of the
ring signal, and if it doesn't ring you don't get the info.

The reason this is partly related to modems is my pet peeve with TB
modems in PEP mode. PEP mode generally retrains around the call waiting
beep, without ever letting you know about it.  This is what many people
want, but not what I want. I would rather drop the data call and get
the incoming call. If Caller ID worked with Call Waiting, I could rig
something up.
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