Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!rutgers!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: toto!bill@apple.com (Bill Cerny) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: "Cancel Call Waiting" in IBT? Message-ID: Date: 22 Apr 89 20:02:40 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: toto!bill@apple.com Lines: 29 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 143, message 7 of 7 Do you have this service in Illinois Bell? One of our associates tells me this service is called "Modem Call Privacy," but I haven't been able to confirm that yet. And does IBT charge extra for this feature? Pac*Bell provides it free with Call Waiting; a logical way to sell Call Waiting in the Silicon Valley I reckon. 8-) -- Bill Cerny bill@toto.uucp (fax: 913-437-2600) [Moderator's Note: Suspend Call Waiting is available throughout area 312 with the possible exception of the Morton Grove CO. It was not available on those prefixes as of a year ago, but that may have changed. We use *70 to turn it on, and it disconnects itself when you hang up the phone. You turn it on prior to dialing your call, as in '*70-123-4567'. If you have three way calling you can also use it on calls you receive as well as at anytime in the middle of a call. Just flash, get dial tone, and dial *70. It clicks and you are automatically reconnected to the call in progress. Obviously, without three way calling there is no valid reason for flashing in the middle of a call (short of receiving another call), so flashing won't work, ergo, turning on *70 in mid-conversation or for an inbound call won't work without three way calling also installed. One oddity here is that if you have two lines which hunt each other on busy/no answer as I do, they will never hunt if you also have call-waiting, since hunting requires that the line test busy, which it won't do. But when I turn on *70, presto the line appears 'truly busy' and subsequent calls get forced over to my second physical line. Neat! PT]