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From: ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: How to turn off call waiting
Keywords: how do I do it
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Date: 5 Jun 88 14:26:55 GMT
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But the tone isn't loud enough to interrupt the carrier.  When I moved
to someplace with a better phone switch, the beeping was entirely
innocuous.  On older call waiting (and three way calling for that
matter) both parties have their line interrupted when somebody hangs
up.  This is how you can tell someone has call waiting when you are
talking to them.  You don't hear the beep but you do hear the clicks.

One day I was talking on the phone after I moved and I kept hearing this
beeping noise.  I asked the person on the other end if they heard it and
they said no.  It finally occured to me, and I asked my wife if we had
call waiting.  I hardly noticed the beep without the annoying click in
front of it that I was so used to.

-Ron