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From: ellisond@gtephx.UUCP (Dell Ellison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Repost of Modems and call waiting
Summary: Different versions of Call Waiting
Keywords: modem call waiting
Message-ID: <44fcd38f.bf85@gtephx.UUCP>
Date: 12 Aug 89 16:46:31 GMT
References: <44f2a964.15768@gtephx.UUCP>
Organization: AG Communication Systems, Phoenix, Arizona
Lines: 34

In article <44f2a964.15768@gtephx.UUCP>, wagnere@gtephx.UUCP (Eric Wagner) writes:
> For some reason, most people missed my original posting of this.
> Therefore, I have received zillions of the same old "just dial
> the *70 code" responses from people who were (understandably)
> assuming that I just wanted to know how to shut call waiting.
> Therefore, and because I feel that this will be an ever-growing
> problem to the computing community, I am reposting the original...
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> Forgive me if this has been discussed before, but I have a big
> problem using my modem given that my home phone line has the
> call waiting service.  Yes, I know, when I CALL OUT, I can dial
> the *70 code to temporarily disable the call waiting.  But, when
> I'm using our company's computer system, which has dial-back
> modems, the computer system ends up CALLING ME.  Yes, I know,
> if you have 3-way calling (which I do), you can hookflash during
> the call, do the *70, and flash back again, but this would cause
> the remote computer system to think that the call was dropped
> due to a carrier loss.  Does anybody know of any software/hardware
> solutions to the problem?

There are three different versions of Call Waiting:

   1. Always on

   2. Normally on, but a code will turn it off

   3. Normally off, but a code will turn it on

You might try getting type 3 from your telephone company,
but this might not be what you're looking for.

Also, you might try posting a message on the newsgroup:

   comp.dcom.telecom