Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: SKASS@drew.bitnet Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Unwanted Three-Way Calling Symptom Message-ID: Date: 15 Feb 91 22:01:00 GMT Sender: news@casbah.acns.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 24 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 124, Message 7 of 8 In Volume 11, issue 116, I wrote: > Subject: Unwanted Three-Way Calling Symptom [Description of strange phone behavior.] The Moderator added: > [Moderator's Note: Some people have said here in the past that the > dial tone is being provided so you can do *70 (cancel call waiting) if > you have that service. That may be the reason you are now getting the > flash dial tone. Try *70 and see if it immediatly cuts back to the > call in progress while busying out your line if you have call waiting > service. ... ] Well, this seems to be it. *70 is the only thing I can seem to dial through the new dial tone that doesn't reorder. Funny thing is, though, that I don't have call waiting (I tested it), and, according to a friend at Bellcore, cancel call waiting is not available in my area. Strange. I'll see what NJ Bell has to say about my symptoms. Steve Kass/Math & CS/Drew U/Madison NJ 07940/2014083614/skass@drew.edu