SKASS@drew.bitnet (02/15/91)
Until recently, I have been able to disconnect a call I initiate by tapping the switchhook briefly, since I don't subscribe to three-way calling. But for the last few days, the quick tap may produce a boop-boop-booooooooooooooo leading to a new dial tone. A second tap returns me to the call in progress. If I try to dial out through the new dial tone, I get a reorder, so despite appearances, I don't have three-way calling. I can still return to the original call by tapping the switchhook while listening to the reorder. I seem to have "Call Hold." This strangeness only happens about 50% of the time. Half the time the first tap simply fails to disconnect, even if it is about a second long. Any ideas what's going on? The phone in question is 201-514-XXXX. Steve Kass/Math & CS/Drew U/Madison NJ 07940/2014083614/skass@drew.edu [Moderator's Note: Some people have said here in the past that the dial tone is being provided so you can do *70 (cancel call waiting) if you have that service. That may be the reason you are now getting the flash dial tone. Try *70 and see if it immediatly cuts back to the call in progress while busying out your line if you have call waiting service. It may be the reason you only get it 'fifty percent of the time' is because your flash is not quite long enough. Maybe you are now supposed to get it one hundred percent of the time. PAT]
SKASS@drew.bitnet (02/16/91)
In Volume 11, issue 116, I wrote: > Subject: Unwanted Three-Way Calling Symptom [Description of strange phone behavior.] The Moderator added: > [Moderator's Note: Some people have said here in the past that the > dial tone is being provided so you can do *70 (cancel call waiting) if > you have that service. That may be the reason you are now getting the > flash dial tone. Try *70 and see if it immediatly cuts back to the > call in progress while busying out your line if you have call waiting > service. ... ] Well, this seems to be it. *70 is the only thing I can seem to dial through the new dial tone that doesn't reorder. Funny thing is, though, that I don't have call waiting (I tested it), and, according to a friend at Bellcore, cancel call waiting is not available in my area. Strange. I'll see what NJ Bell has to say about my symptoms. Steve Kass/Math & CS/Drew U/Madison NJ 07940/2014083614/skass@drew.edu