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- From: edg@netcom.com (Ed Greenberg)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Fake Call-Waiting Product
- Message-ID: <telecom12.866.10@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 21:45:52 GMT
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 866, Message 10 of 12
-
- In article <telecom12.858.2@eecs.nwu.edu> dave@westmark.com (Dave
- Levenson) writes:
-
- > 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.
-
- I heard this demonstrated by the inventor on Marketplace (American
- Public Radio) last night. I couldn't tell the difference between it
- and traditional click-clunk call waiting. You don't heard a beep,
- just a click-clunk.
-
- You'd have to be really literate and know what kind of switch is on
- the other end in order to get wise to this.
-
-
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