telephone newbie

[FoBoT]

i have to do a conference call from home and i don't know how to use the phone

how do i turn off call waiting or whatever that beepy thing is when somebody calls, so that during the conference call, i/they don't hear my phone do stuff?

thank you

i have SBC local service, but this stuff is the same everywhere?

 

[spartan]

*70 before the number you want to dial. Not sure if this works everywhere.

 

[isasir]

/spasms as he tried to remember the answer to this, from back during the dreaded dial-up days.

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: RishiS
... from back during the dreaded dial-up days.

there are non-dial up telephone? :Q

ok, i really haven't kept up with telephony, or do you mean it's different for cell phones?

 

[dabuddha]

It's *70.

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: FoBoT

Originally posted by: RishiS
... from back during the dreaded dial-up days.

there are non-dial up telephone? :Q

ok, i really haven't kept up with telephony, or do you mean it's different for cell phones?

He just meant he only had to use it during his dial-up modem days... so he's trying to remember how it was done back then... you know... like 1990s... that was sooooo long ago.

 

[FoBoT]

oh
i think it worked, it did a beepy noise when i did the *70

i don't know if my mute button works though, the light didn't come on when i mashed it

oh well, i guess this is what i get for taking a day off

 

[rh71]

... while on the call, dial *6 to see if it mutes it. Works with our teleconference lines...

 

[isasir]

Originally posted by: rh71

Originally posted by: FoBoT

Originally posted by: RishiS
... from back during the dreaded dial-up days.

there are non-dial up telephone? :Q

ok, i really haven't kept up with telephony, or do you mean it's different for cell phones?

He just meant he only had to use it during his dial-up modem days... so he's trying to remember how it was done back then... you know... like 1990s... that was sooooo long ago.

Yeah, what he said. Optimum Online r0x0rs yo.