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From: wdarden@nrtc.nrtc.northrop.com (Bill Darden <wdarden>)
Newsgroups: misc.consumers,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: phone problems
Keywords: auto disconnect
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Date: 5 Feb 90 15:36:22 GMT
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In article <13697@cbnews.ATT.COM> lbd@cbnews.ATT.COM (Linda B.
Dunlap,45280,cb,3R109,6148605314) writes:  >In article
<1679@xn.LL.MIT.EDU> rp@XN.LL.MIT.EDU (Richard Pavelle) writes:  >>
>>I am having an intermittent problem wherein the phone rings, I wait
>>for the 2nd or 3rd ring, pick it up and hear a disconnect.  This
>>occurs on about half my calls on all phones on a particular
incoming >>line.  The other two incoming lines do not have this
problem.

Another possibility is the speed in which the central office(s)
processes disconnected calls.  It works something like this:  

When someone call our number and decides to hangup before the
connection is answered, the orginating central office starts
"tearing" the call down, but not until our central office has rang
our line at least once.

Good luck,

BiLL.....