Selective Call Interupption
David Lesher
have several different number assignments on one actual pair.
Then you receive different rings {long short short,
long short long short, short short short, etc} to identify
which number is being called.
They also offer call interuption. (IMHO-a system designed by
those who hawk high blood pressure medication)
Now if you have both, do you get long and short beeps in your
ear to identify incoming calls?
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[Moderator's Note: As a matter of fact, in the version of this offered by
Illinois Bell, called 'Selective Ringing', you *do* get distinctive call
waiting tones for each line. You get a chirp and a pause, two chirps and
a pause, or a chirp-pause-chirp. And for some reason, unlike 'normal'
call-waiting here, where you get notified on the first ring, and again
on the fourth ring (as the caller hears the rings), when associated with
Starline, we get only the first chirp(s)....no reminder chirp(s). When
your service is on the newest of the digital switches here, the person
you are talking to doesn't even hear them! Originally, the person you
were talking to would get a 'ker-chunk!' as the line dropped for a second.
Now all he hears is less than a second of dead silence if you are the
person talking. If *he* is talking at the time, he hears nothing. PT]