Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: 29 Jun 91 22:28:28 GMT From: John G Dobnick Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Operator Busy Break-In Now Costs $1.60 Reply-To: jgd@convex.csd.uwm.edu Message-ID: Organization: TELECOM Digest 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 499, Message 7 of 10 Lines: 20 From article , by gws@cblph.att.com (Gary W Sanders): > Do you need to talk to someone, and the line is busy? For a $1.60 per > call, you can ask the Ohio Bell Operator to interrupt a busy line. [for non-emergency calls] This is going to play merry hell with data calls, as I'm sure many others have mentioned (or will mention). Does Ohio Bell also supply a feature analogous to "disable call waiting" to inform the operator that a call is *NOT* interruptible? John G Dobnick Computing Services Division @ University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee INTERNET: jgd@uwm.edu UUCP: uunet!uwm!jgd ATTnet: (414) 229-5727