jmzweig@snail.CS.UIUC.EDU (02/13/88)
I have lived in Oregon and Illinois and never had a hitch with getting call waiting turned off (in fact, my autodial sequence always starts with *70W so I don't get cut off). Observation: if you are using the phone for data alot so that getting bleeped to death is a big problem, shouldn't you reconsider whether having call waiting is even worth it? The telco will cut it off for a few bucks, and the problem goes away. So people will get busy signals sometimes -- that's what you are trying to arrange... Suggestion: rag on the phone company. DC is thick as thieves with modem users, and if the phone company doesn't support *70, it is a *big* problem, and should brought to the proper people's attention. Maybe they just threw a switch for your local exchange and never noticed.... Johnny Zweig