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- Path: sparky!uunet!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 13:37:57 GMT
- From: dave@westmark.com (Dave Levenson)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Fake Call-Waiting Product
- Message-ID: <telecom12.858.2@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: Westmark, Inc.
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 858, Message 2 of 13
- Lines: 25
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- A Mr. David H. Schmidt has invented a product called "Gotta Go". You
- can buy it for $14.95 and plug it into your telephone. When you've
- got someone on the line who won't let you go, you push the button and
- it makes a click-beep that sounds like a Call Waiting signal. You can
- then use that as an excuse to bring the unwanted conversation to an
- end.
-
- That's what it says in this morning's {New York Times}!
-
- It may well work with the general public. The telecom-literate, of
- course, will realize that the beep is only heard by the party who is
- receiving the call-waiting, not by the far-end. (Yes, with the 1ESS
- and 1AESS both parties get a click, but only the party receiving the
- call-waiting gets the beep. With the 5ESS, the party who is not
- receiving a call hears only silence while the other party gets a
- beep.) It should be easy enough to differentiate between a real
- call-waiting interruption and a fake created by the party who is tired
- of talking to us, and is embarrassed to say so.
-
-
- Dave Levenson Internet: dave@westmark.com
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