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From: johnl@think.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: RingMaster service
Message-ID: <8709161804.AA00673@ima.ISC.COM>
Date: Wed, 16-Sep-87 14:04:30 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 16 14:04:30 1987
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BellSouth's operating companies South Central Bell and Southern Bell are
introducing a new service called RingMaster. It assigns two or three numbers
to the same phone line, and gives the different numbers different rings. That
way if you run a business in your home you can know whether to answer "Hello"
or "Thank You For Calling Schrod Bait Systems" without having to install and
pay for two lines. You could also use it for a minor variety of toll evasion;
when you leave the office, call the second number, let it ring four times, and
hang up, so your housemate hears the ring and knows you're on the way without
answering the phone and completing the call.

Sounds like a clever way to get some revenue from CO equipment that has to be
present anyway to support the dwindling number of party lines.
-- 
John R. Levine, Cambridge MA, +1 617 492 3869
{ ihnp4 | decvax | cbosgd | harvard | yale }!ima!johnl, Levine@YALE.something
The Iran-Contra affair:  None of this would have happened if Ronald Reagan
were still alive.
---
John R. Levine, Cambridge MA, +1 617 492 3869
{ ihnp4 | decvax | cbosgd | harvard | yale }!ima!johnl, Levine@YALE.something
The Iran-Contra affair:  None of this would have happened if Ronald Reagan
were still alive.