Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Thu, 30 May 91 16:21:39 EDT From: "Steven S. Brack" Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Ringing Tones Around the World Message-ID: Organization: Blue Moon BBS ((614) 868-998[0][2][4]) Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 415, Message 1 of 13 Lines: 31 kentrox!bud@uunet.uu.net (Bud Couch) writes: > Most C.O. switches built in the last ten years *deliberately* divorce > the ringback tone heard by the calling party from the acrual ringing > sound at the called party's phone. This has been done to cut down on > revenue "leakage" due to ringing code schemes: "Well, when we get to > Aunt Gertie's house, we'll call and leave it ring three times." > Modern switches, in general, return ringback both slower and > asynchronously from the actual ringing in order to foul up those > schemes. "Why did you answer? It only rang twice." "Twice? It started > on the fourth ring here!" Do the IECs do anything to combat sending messages other ways? I can remember my mother telling me (when I was a young man going on a long trip) that when I landed, I was to make a collect call home, and say it was from "Mr. Holmes." It seems that doing something like this would be very costly to the IECs. Oh, I made that collect call through AT&T. Funny, it wasn't that long ago that we had one phone company. 8| <- The jury's still out on whether I should ) or (. Steven S. Brack | sbrack%bluemoon@nstar.rn.com Jacob E. Taylor Honors Tower | sbrack@bluemoon.uucp The Ohio State University | sbrack@nyx.cs.du.edu 50 Curl Drive | sbrack@isis.cs.du.edu Columbus, Ohio 43210-1112 USA | brack@ewf.eng.ohio-state.edu +1 614 293 7383 or 419 474 1010 | Steven.S.Brack@osu.edu