[comp.dcom.telecom] Can You Disable Call Waiting AFTER the Call Starts?

ralphs@sumax.seattleu.edu (Ralph Sims) (03/21/91)

SKASS@drew.bitnet writes:

> waiting to begin with.  I've been annoyed for several months now by
> not being able to hang up my phone with a quick flash.  Instead, I get
> a new dial tone, and the call goes on hold.  The only thing that I can
> dial through the new dial tone without getting a reorder is *70, after
> dialing which I am returned to the call in progress.  Calls to the

That sounds suspiciously like three-party-conferencing, which seems to
be a requirement here to get the ability to cancel call-waiting (area
code 206/USWest).