*49 Bell Canada Smart-Touch Code
kevin chapman
(SEBarnett) wrote:
> Bell Canada's World-Wide Web pages contain a "Products and Services"
> guide which includes a list of the *XX codes used to access Bell's
> Smart-Touch (Custom Calling) Services. Beside the standard *69, *70,
> etc. codes there is listed a *49 which is described as the "long
> distance signal" code. The same code (*49), according to the chart,
> both activates and deactivates this signal. I was not able to find
> any other clear reference at Bell's site telling me exactly what this
> signal is for. Does anyone have any information?
I don't have the feature, but I believe this enables the custom
call-waiting tone for long-distance calls. A toll call will generate
a tone different from that for regular calls. Presumably some people
will want to prioritize their calls based on where the call's coming
from -- not me though ...
Kevin Chapman
Advanced Collaborative Technologies
Nortel Ottawa, Canada
Jeff Bamford
> *49 which is described as the "long distance signal" code.
If you subscribe to call waiting an incoming long distance
will cause your phone to ring with a different pattern (i.e. a
distinctive ring). For this service it is one long and then two short
rings. Since some customers may have equipment which will think that
it is a fax call, for example, the *49 code is used to turn off (or
on) this feature.
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Scott Montague
tack-on to Call Waiting. In Bell Canada territory, Call Waiting will
ring short-short-long for Long Distance calls, and normally otherwise.
When you are on the line, Call Waiting tones are heard in the same
manner.
The unfortunate error Bell made when introducing this "feature" was in
not announcing it to anyone. Bell also decided it would be best if
everyone who had Call Waiting automatically had this "feature"
enabled. Bell sort-of forgot, however, that this feature overrides
Ident-a-Call (distinctive ringing numbers on the same line). So, in
short order, the Repair office was ringing off the hook. A new
message was added to the waiting queue: "Call Waiting subscribers can
now know when a long-distance call is coming through. The ring will
now sound different for long-distance calls. You can permanently
disable this feature by pressing *49 and can reenable it at any time
by pressing *49 again."
I imagine that there were a lot of baffled looks on people's faces
when they heard that ring for the first time.
Scott Montague 4s...@qlink.queensu.ca
Ian Angus
> Bell Canada's World-Wide Web pages contain a "Products and Services"
> guide which includes a list of the *XX codes used to access Bell's
> Smart-Touch (Custom Calling) Services. Beside the standard *69, *70,
> etc. codes there is listed a *49 which is described as the "long
> distance signal" code. The same code (*49), according to the chart,
> both activates and deactivates this signal. I was not able to find
> any other clear reference at Bell's site telling me exactly what this
> signal is for. Does anyone have any information?
That code deactivates a now-standard Bell Canada feature -- a
distinctive ring when an incoming call is long distance.
We deactivated it at our house because we also have the
Ident-a-call feature (distinctive ringing for different dialed
numbers, and the LD ring was too similar to one of the ones
we were already using.
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