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- Path: sparky!uunet!walter!porthos!vixen!jadams
- From: jadams@vixen.uucp (22475-adams)
- Subject: Re: phone gets locked up
- Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 15:24:27 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.152427.10858@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
- Summary: A possible scenario
- References: <4220@novavax.UUCP>
- Keywords: call waiting
- Sender: netnews@porthos.cc.bellcore.com (USENET System Software)
- Lines: 28
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- In article <4220@novavax.UUCP>, vaccaro@novavax.UUCP (N. Trafford Vaccaro) writes:
- > Did anyone ever have the following problem: you pick
- > up the phone and no dial tone.
- >
- > This happened to me 3 times. No one could call in and I couldn't call
- > out. I noticed today that when my sister called from NY she had
- > a call come in while we were talking, so I said bye and she hung up
- > and my dial tone went away. I think her call waiting did something
- > to my phone line.
-
- I'm not sure what the circumstances of the other 2 times were, but your sister
- dropping you to pick up an incoming call waiting call would indeed. The central
- office equipment (All vendors) utilize suspend timers which are set between 14 and
- 16 seconds to insure that your hangup signal (called party) is indeed a hangup and
- not a switch hook flash. A side benefit of all of this is that it is possible
- when answering a call on an extension which is inconvenient (Assume residence
- here), to hang up the inconvenient extension and move quickly (14 seconds is not a
- lot of time) to the desired extension and maintain the connection to the calling
- party.
-
- Jack (John) Adams | Bellcore NVC 2Z-220 | - Never trouble trouble
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