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From: rruxff!ahom@bellcore.bellcore.com (allen hom)
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Subject: Re: Tone Block
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Date: 27 Feb 90 12:51:41 GMT
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In article <4348@accuvax.nwu.edu>, tel@cdsdb1.att.com (Tom Lowe) writes:

> > From: Daniel A Margolis <dam@mtqua.att.com>
 
> > The ability to suspend Call Waiting is called *TONE-BLOCK* here in New
> > Jersey Bell land, but here's the catch - you have to subscribe to it.
> > You have to pay 50 cents extra per month to use it.
 
> Not necessarily true...I have it and I don't pay 50 cents per month
> for it.
 
> Does anyone out there in Bell Atlantic country pay for this fifty
> cents/month Tone Block Feature?  If I remember, I'll give the business
> office a call next week and ask them some questions.
 
I have tone block (as well as other CLASS services).  When I had
signed up for the services, the "salesperson" did mention the $0.50
extra charge for this service, and I see that charge monthly on my
phone bill.  Well worth the service, especially when you dial into
work from home.


Allen Hom
Bellcore
ahom@rruxff.cc.bellcore.com