Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: john@bovine.ati.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Call Forwarding Message-ID: <2383@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 22 Dec 89 07:45:37 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: John Higdon Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 37 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 591, message 3 of 8 eli@pws.bull.com writes: > [in response to my claim that call forwarding would work for multiple > calls] > This isn't correct, at least in the Boston area switches. A couple of > years ago, one could have many calls being forwarded through a single > line. Now, only one call can be active through a call forward at one > time. > I just confirmed this moments ago, John! Well, I just comfirmed moments ago that my office phone in Santa Clara would indeed forward at least three calls, assuming that each of the preceeding calls was supervised. It is served by a 1AESS co-located with the Pac*Bell tandem. However, when I tried the same trick on my home phone, it didn't work. My home phone is handled by an unknown number of trained hamsters (1ESS). With its 1951 generic, I'm not surprised. This little experiment would lead one to believe that multiple forwarding is something that can work on a switch-by-switch basis. I would suggest that you might try other Boston area switches, but that doesn't solve your problem with your particular switch. > This is for my > residential service -- I've heard that you can indeed ask that > multiple calls be allowed through, but the phone company people are > baffled when I try to explain the situation. As much as I kinda doubt it, maybe there is a distinction between forwarding on business vs forwarding on residential. It's ridiculous, but who knows? John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@bovine.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !