Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!topaz.rutgers.edu!ron From: ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: How to turn off call waiting Keywords: how do I do it Message-ID: Date: 5 Jun 88 14:26:55 GMT References: <11721@sunybcs.UUCP> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 14 But the tone isn't loud enough to interrupt the carrier. When I moved to someplace with a better phone switch, the beeping was entirely innocuous. On older call waiting (and three way calling for that matter) both parties have their line interrupted when somebody hangs up. This is how you can tell someone has call waiting when you are talking to them. You don't hear the beep but you do hear the clicks. One day I was talking on the phone after I moved and I kept hearing this beeping noise. I asked the person on the other end if they heard it and they said no. It finally occured to me, and I asked my wife if we had call waiting. I hardly noticed the beep without the annoying click in front of it that I was so used to. -Ron