Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!umich!telecom-request From: SKASS@drew.bitnet Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Disabling Call Waiting Message-ID: Date: 18 Mar 91 19:44:00 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 27 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 215, Message 10 of 13 In issue #206, Dave Levenson writes: > In New Jersey, the subscriber must subscribe to the feature that > allows disabling of call-waiting for this to work. This is a feature > that may be ordered and priced separately from call waiting. > If disable call waiting is purchased, then the subscriber may disable > call waiting on an established call by flashing the switchhook, and > dialing *70, and may then expect to be reconnected with the call that > was in progress. > [Moderator's Note: Illinois Bell gives *70 for free. PAT] NJ Bell gives *70 for free, too, at least if you DON'T have call waiting to begin with. I've been annoyed for several months now by not being able to hang up my phone with a quick flash. Instead, I get a new dial tone, and the call goes on hold. The only thing that I can dial through the new dial tone without getting a reorder is *70, after dialing which I am returned to the call in progress. Calls to the business office and 611 get me nowhere. I really don't have call waiting, but I have every symptom of having cancel call waiting [and don't want it]. Weird. Steve Kass/ Math&CS/ Drew U/ Madison NJ 07940 2015141187/ skass@drew.edu