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From: vances@xenitec.on.ca (Vance Shipley)
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Subject: Re: Data vs Voice
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In article <12624@accuvax.nwu.edu> tjo@its.bt.co.uk (Tim Oldham) writes:

>links; certainly sometimes I get completely dead patches on a noisy
>phone line, which I have always contributed to zero compression.

>So, am I correct in this assumption? If I'm right, what happens when

I doubt it.  I would bet it was a case of squelch.  when the talking
stops they suppress the background noise.  It's meant to help but many
find it disconcerting.  The Toshiba Strata key systems used to do this
(some) on CO calls.  People would hang up thinking they'd been
disconnected!


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