Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!bionet!ames!killer!vector!telecom-gateway From: gonzalez@bbn.com (Jim Gonzalez) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Questions About The Call Waiting Feature Message-ID: Date: 18 Feb 89 19:03:14 GMT Sender: news@vector.UUCP Lines: 28 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 67, message 3 of 6 A college acquaintance of mine has call waiting on his line, as a cheap alternative to a second line for his modem. Every time he got a noise burst, he would break his terminal session and check for the other call. Of course, not every noise burst was caused by a call waiting tone, and he ended up with unwanted interruptions. Can anyone provide a description of the tone, including the frequency and period? I've never used such a line, but know that you get more than the click the primary caller hears. Are there detection circuits commercially available? Also, YAWNS (Yet Another Wrong-Number Story :-). I've been getting calls about once a week from this woman who, I have since learned, was dialing a number for a different exchange but with the same last four digits. Is it possible that her CO is misdirecting the call? The exchanges in question rule out a simple misdial on Touch Tone or rotary phone. I successfully called the correct party, who has been getting calls from other people without a hitch, but has *never* heard from the woman who has been calling me. Aren't computers wonderful? I'm sure the story will get better when New England Telephone starts trying to fix this :-). -Jim. ##################################### Jim Gonzalez AT&T: 617-873-2937 BBN Systems and Technologies Corp. ARPA: gonzalez@bbn.com Cambridge, Massachusetts UUCP: ...seismo!bbn!gonzalez #####################################