call waiting
noun[U]
ukusCOMMUNICATIONS
aphoneservicethatallowsyou to have thepersonthat you arespeakingwithwaitwhile youansweranothercall:
If you're on onecallwhen another comes in, you'llhearthecallwaitingbeepinyourear.
Examplesofcall waiting
call waiting
Additional information is on the website, including averagecallwaitingtimes updated daily.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.All plans includedcallwaiting, conference call and 1000 call forwarding minutes.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The new telephone exchange equipment offered vertical service code calling features such as call forwarding andcallwaitingwhich was incompatible with party line technology.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The $25/month plan now includes province-wide long distance plus thecallwaiting, call forwarding and conference call features.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It addresses non-conversational use cases of the codec (e.g.callwaitingmusic playback and recording of teleconferencing sessions, voice mail messages).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Service invocation may happen based on some explicit action (e.g. call transfer) by user or implicitly (callwaiting).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thecallwaitingfeature often outputs an audible beep noise to indicate that there is a second call coming in.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A common use of hook flash is to switch to another incoming call with thecallwaitingservice.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.To illustrate the example, we consider a telephone line provided to a customer, and we assume that both call forwarding andcallwaitingare enabled on the line.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.I have already raised the issue in an early-day motion; it relates tocallwaitingand telephone queueing systems.
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