Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Tue, 25 Jun 91 11:47:24 EDT From: Gordon D Woods Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Operator Busy Break-In Now Costs $1.60 Message-ID: Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu 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 489, Message 5 of 12 Lines: 19 From article , by drawson@sagehen. tymnet.com (Dick Rawson): > Am I really required to hang up on my current call and accept an > incoming call ... just because the caller claimed to the operator that > there is an emergency? I had only understood that I was required to > make shared telephone facilities available to someone else who ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > declared an emergency. From my personal experience, you can complain all you want but Dick Rawson is right: your connection gets cut off, plain and simple. I was on a long distance call interrupted for an "emergency". It was a wrong number! The guy had been calling me for weeks. Now he breaks into my calls! I called the business office: "Nothing we can do; use Call Trace if he calls again. Good bye." You really have no choice, either you refuse all "emergencies" or accept them sight unseen.