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From: forman@ceee-sed.UUCP.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Call Waiting feature on C&P region telephones
Message-ID: <8702131950.AA02022@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Fri, 13-Feb-87 14:38:00 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 13 14:38:00 1987
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I often use my home modem to call my office computer.  I have "call 
waiting" on my home phone in Potomac, MD, an area served by the Chesapeake
and Potomac Telephone Co.  
The "call waiting" feature appears to act like a 2 line hold button at the 
telephone company switching office. That is: my call is interrupted by a short
beep; I can then depress the receiver button and switch to the new incoming
call; the original call is placed on hold and can be retrieved by a second
depression of the receiver button.  The PROBLEM is that the short "notification"
beep disconnects the modem.
I am told that in other parts of the country the telephone company equipment
allows for the turning off of the "call waiting" feature by dialing out and using
some code sequence. C&P Telephone insists that there equipment does not have this 
capability.  THEY MAY NOT KNOW OR MAY NOT BE TELLINMG THE TRUTH.

Short of giving up the "call waiting" service, and without dedicating another
telephone line at my home solely for modem work what can I do.

Dick Forman
National Bureau of Standards
Semiconductor Electronic Division
Gaithersbur, Maryland 20899
301-975-2047
New Address:Forman%CEEE-sed.arpa

Thanks.
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