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| Bell Atlantic: Call Forward on Busy was $8. Residential Hunt Group was free by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 03/07/2014, 9:10am PST | ||||
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| If you think I'm insane, listen to this story.
Back about 20 years ago (around 1993-1994) when C&P Telephone of Maryland became the now defunct Bell Atlantic after it ate New York Telephone and changed its name, we had two phone lines, one for the family and one for my modem. Well, I got the idea that if the main line was busy, it could roll over from the main line to the modem. I didn't have call waiting on my modem line so it wouldn't interrupt my outgoing calls or faxes. So anyway, I call up to find out about it. I can order residential call forward on busy. That is the standard service where it does just what it sounds like, if the first number is busy, it rolls over to the second one, and costs $8 a month. There is also an installation charge of $20. I could, however, order a very old service called "residential hunt group" in which they group the two phone lines, and when calls come in for the first number, if that number is busy, the hunt group rolls the incoming call over to the next line. You can have all way hunt group meaning that if the last line of the group is busy then calls roll over to the first line if any line is available, or you can have one-way hunt group where if all lines are busy then the caller receives a busy signal. Most people don't use hunt group because Bell Atlantic doesn't advertise it but it's still in their tariff schedules, usually it's offered to business customers. Oh, and residential hunt group has no monthly charge and has no installation charge. This doesn't make any sense, which, of course, is par for the course for a telephone company. So you can guess which one I ordered, since - notwithstanding the opinions of (some of) the cretinous reprobates on Caltrops - I am neither crazy, stupid, nor do I waste money when I don't have to.. Oh, by the way, in case you're wondering whom the now defunct Bell Atlantic is, after they ate General Telephone they changed their name again. Now they're known as Verizon. They also ate MCI after it went bankrupt, which is why the sports arena in Washington DC which was called the MCI center is now known as Verizon Center. |
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Bell Atlantic: Call Forward on Busy was $8. Residential Hunt Group was free by 03/07/2014, 9:10am PST  No. NT by 03/08/2014, 1:01am PST Ma Bell Busy Signal by 03/08/2014, 1:19am PST "Like Ma Bell I got the ill perambulation" NT by 03/08/2014, 3:20am PST See, Paul? This is how to quote song lyrics NT by 03/08/2014, 6:43am PST |
