Steve Elias <eli@ursa-major.spdcc.com> (03/13/90)
I saw a TV ad in NJ this weekend for a "repeat dial" service available from the local telco. Does anyone know anything about this service??? eli@spdcc.com
Dave Levenson <dave%westmark@uunet.uu.net> (03/18/90)
In article <5146@accuvax.nwu.edu>, eli@ursa-major.spdcc.com (Steve Elias) writes: > I saw a TV ad in NJ this weekend for a "repeat dial" service available > from the local telco. Does anyone know anything about this service??? Repeat*Call service is part of a package of custom calling services offered by NJ Bell under the service mark CLASS. With this service, if you call a busy number, you then hang up, go off-hook, dial a feature-activation code, and hang up again. When the number you previously dialed becomes not-busy, if your line is not-busy, you get a call back. If you answer, then that number gets called, and you get connected. While waiting, you may make or receive other calls. (The CO isn't really repeatedly re-trying, as the name suggests. It actually requests that the distant central office send notification when the status of the called number changes.) Note that the number you called must be within your LATA, and must be served by a central office equipped for CLASS services. If these two requirements are not met, you are given a recorded message in response to your feature-activation code, and you receive no call-back. Dave Levenson Voice: 201 647 0900 Fax: 201 647 6857 Westmark, Inc. Internet: dave@westmark.uu.net Warren, NJ, USA UUCP: {uunet | rutgers | att}!westmark!dave [The Man in the Mooney] AT&T Mail: !westmark!dave