[comp.dcom.telecom] Radio Shack Call Forwarding Device

eli@pws.bull.com (Steve Elias) (09/15/90)

Is the Radio Shack single line call forwarding device a new product?
Last time I checked, their product required two phone lines...


eli

dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com (David Tamkin) (09/16/90)

Steve Elias wrote to the Digest and to me, asking,

| Is the Radio Shack single line call forwarding device a new product?
| Last time I checked, their product required two phone lines...

I don't remember any mention of needing two phone lines in the blurb
in the catalog.  It rather baffles me what it would need two phone
lines for anyway, since as far as I know, *72 and *73 sequences to the
CO affect only the line from which they are dialed.  How can it seize
a different line from the one on which it is receiving the call and
then tell the CO to redirect Call Forwarding on the first line?

Now, perhaps one dials in on the second line to tell the box to
reprogram Call Forwarding for the first line, but if their box works
like the one previously described in the Digest, then there should be
no need for the thirty-second wait or canceling and re-establishing
Call Forwarding every time a call comes in.  The box described sounds
like something for a single line.

Again, the Radio Shack product may be different.


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