heiby@cuae2.UUCP (Ron Heiby) (08/22/85)
TELECOM Digest Monday, August 5, 1985 4:55PM Volume 5, Issue 14 Today's Topics: Questions on Cellular phone service.. Re: telecom v5 #11 Telebit Corp. Cancel Call Waiting on Incoming Call? two things ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: <bang!root@Nosc> Date: Fri, 2 Aug 85 09:18:18 pdt Subject: Questions on Cellular phone service.. There seems to be quite a bit of confusion on how the San Diego Cellular phone system is likely to operate. (When it finally becomes operational, that is. - So far its been delayed for over 9 months for one reason or another) My understanding on phone rates for celluar calls is that a user is charged for airtime no matter who originates a phone call. If I am calling FROM a cellular phone, then I pay air charges (of .40 per minute) as soon as I dial a number, whether or not it completes. If I call TO a cellular phone then the callee is charged airtime whether or not he answers (or is even there). There is no grace time. I am also led to believe that dealers selling phones are far more interested in selling Phone Numbers than actual instruments. They receive a commission on each call you make for 10 years. I guess this means that equipment prices are likely to drop rapidly or that deals can be made easily. This is all theory, there is not a working system here, but I am curious. If the cost of the phones drops to a reasonable level (like under $400) it might be worthwhile using it despite the usage charges. If you have any experience with a working cellular system, I'd be interested to know how well it works and what it ends up really costing to use. Bret Marquis (ihnp4,sdcsvax)!bang!bam bang!bam@NOSC ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Aug 85 7:54:00 EDT From: Carl Moore (VLD/VMB) <cmoore@BRL.ARPA> Subject: Re: telecom v5 #11 One of the payphone businesses listed was W.Q. Watson & Assoc., Gainesville, GA (you had FL) 30503, tel. 404-522-9246. 404-522 is Atlanta; perhaps this is 532. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Aug 85 14:09:05 edt From: mgrant@umd-burble.ARPA (Michael A. Grant) Subject: Telebit Corp. Has anyone been able to get any info out of Telebit Corporation? I've been calling their 800 tel-ebit number about 5 times a day since last week. It answers with 'Thankyou for calling telebit corporation, for faster service, please dial 1 for customer service, 2 for sales and other enquires. Please dial now." I've tried dialing 1, 2, and nothing at all. It rings and rings, and I never get an answer. Does anyone have any info on these '10K baud' modems they claim to sell? -MGrant ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Aug 85 11:57 MST From: Schuttenberg@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA (Jim) Subject: Cancel Call Waiting on Incoming Call? Recent transactions here indicate that Pacific Bell has made available a Cancel Call Waiting feature that is invoked prior to placing an outgoing call. Is there any way to activate the feature after having received an incoming call? ------------------------------ Date: Mon 5 Aug 85 16:54:35-EDT From: Jon Solomon <JSOL@MIT-XX.ARPA> Subject: two things I discovered that my call waiting works if you complete BOTH calls on the 3-way call. I.e. it's not good enough just to connect the two lines together, both have to ANSWER before call waiting works again (I guess I agree that the other caller shouldn't have to listen to ringing or some disconnect message just because I got a call wait and cannot disconnect it). Also, if Pacific Bell is doing what NET is doing with cancelable call-waiting, you need 3-way calling to turn call waiting off after a call has been set up. This is the first time I have heard of one custom calling feature depending on another. Cheers, --Jsol ------------------------------ End of TELECOM Digest ********************* -- Ron Heiby {NAC|ihnp4}!cuae2!heiby Moderator: mod.newprod & mod.unix AT&T-IS, /app/eng, Lisle, IL (312) 810-6109 "No; my legs are written in a functional programming language." (J. McKie)