Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken!telecom-request From: halcyon!ralphs@sumax.seattleu.edu (Ralph Sims) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Can You Disable Call Waiting AFTER the Call Starts? Message-ID: Date: 21 Mar 91 06:10:00 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service Lines: 12 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 220, Message 5 of 10 SKASS@drew.bitnet writes: > 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 That sounds suspiciously like three-party-conferencing, which seems to be a requirement here to get the ability to cancel call-waiting (area code 206/USWest).