arnaud@angate.att.com (Alain Arnaud) (09/28/89)
I live in a multi-story (six) townhouse. I have two phone lines, one of them connected to a fax machine. We receive all of our voice calls on one line. I would like to be able to add an intercom feature. Lets say, the phone rings, I am in the room on the sixth level, my wife is in a room on the second level, I would like to be able to put the call on hold, dial the phone in that room to tell her to pickup. I thought that Intellidial would allow me to do this, but after talking to a New England Telephone representative, who was very helpful and courteous I found out that the intercom feature of Intellidial allows only to call bewtween the two lines. BTW, I like very much the other features, the NET rep offered to turn on the service next week for a two week trial period, after which if I choose to keep it, they will charge me $21/line. All of our phones are trimline type, so what would be the best way to add the intercom feature. Alan Arnaud (arnaud@angate.att.com) Standard disclaimer, just consulting at ATT. [Moderator's Note: Same problem here, in a way. I have two lines, using one exclusively for voice and the other for mostly modem and some voice. You can have 'half an intercom' by using the line with the FAX to dial the intercom code to the other line, assuming you have a phone instrument on the line as well as a FAX machine. If I want my brother or his wife, I use the modem line to dial the code for the other line. When Dan or Tina want me, they call if the modem is not on the line (I don't use auto answer); otherwise they walk from wherever to my room and talk to me! PT]