Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pyrdc!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: stiatl!pda@gatech.edu (Paul Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: "Cancel Call Waiting" in IBT? Message-ID: Date: 26 Apr 89 15:28:02 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Paul Anderson Organization: Sales Technologies Inc., a teeny little company in the existance of creation... Lines: 27 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 148, message 4 of 11 In article toto!bill@apple.com writes: >[regarding how to get the call-waiting disable feature] >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-) Funny how I first found out about it. When I was in Florida, I had call waiting but had not been using a modem. Then one day I started using a modem & had call waiting problems. I got really hot under the collar about it. I also had 3 way calling, call forwarding and speed dialing. None of which I was using. SO, I called Ma Bell and said 'I want all those special features disconnected'. And the response was, "But why Mr. Anderson. Don't you find those features extremely help- ful?" "No. I don't. I am tired of my modem hanging up when call waiting beeps!" "Oh, Mr. Anderson, for special people like you, we have a code that you can dial to keep call waiting from interrupting your modem use. Would that help?" Would that help?! Well, suffice it to say, that upon threat of disconnecting all special features, Ma Bell was only too glad to give me a 'free' extra service. So, I guess my response to you would be that you shouldn't have to pay for it. :-) paul -- Paul Anderson "But Why?" gatech!stiatl!pda "Because they tried to make it (404) 841-4000 secure..."