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Date: 30 May 91 17:50:02 GMT
From: Tom Gray <mitel!Software!grayt@uunet.uu.net>
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Subject: Re: Ringing Tones Around the World
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In article <telecom11.404.9@eecs.nwu.edu> ivgate!Jack.Winslade@uunet.
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> YSAR1111@vm1.yorku.ca (Rick Broadhead) writes:

> There was a discussion of ringing tones in a local conference a while
> back (but I can't find it now) which discussed this.  It made mention
> of a certain suburban Omaha office which until recently had a
> vibrating reed tone generator.  It was remarked that it sounded like
> the passing of gas.  ;-)

The UK has recently moved to the precise tone plan. However the
definition of the previous dial tone was:

         a PURRING tone at about -15dBm.

A more euphemistic way of describing the tone perhaps :-)


Tom Gray