Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Tue, 11 Jun 91 21:44:26 EDT From: Rick Broadhead Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Ringing Tones Around the World Message-ID: Organization: TELECOM Digest 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 451, Message 5 of 11 Lines: 22 A slight twist to this subject: The following appeared in the {Toronto Star} on June 10, 1991. YOU MAY HEAR ADS ON THE TELEPHONE Some day, you literally may have commercials coming out of your ears. Bell At lantic, one of the largest regional telephone companies in the U.S., has bought the patent on a system for patching recorded ads into the four-second pauses between rings in a phone call. Its inventor says studies show callers wait an average of three rings each time they call someone. "That's two messages," he points out. - Knight-Ridder News Service - (How many times do TELECOM readers let the phone ring before they hang up? -- I usually wait for more than three rings) Rick Broadhead ysar1111@VM1.YorkU.Ca