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- From: ee152fdm@sdcc15.ucsd.edu (Maiko Covington)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: False economy
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- Date: 18 Nov 92 03:55:54 GMT
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- >What a lot of people don't realize is that when you call someone, the ringing
- >you hear is *not* their phone! The ringing you hear is generated internally
- >by your own phone's circuitry; the phone company is not going spend billions
- >of zorkmids for special cicuitry to route the callee's ring signal back to
- >you -- your phone "knows" that the other phone is ringing and thus generates
- >a ring for you to listen to, but you do not hear the actual ring of the other
- >phone.
- >-Dave
-
- Wait... when you call different countries, you DO get different
- rings. The generic "phone ringing" sound is different depending on
- what country you are in, as are the various sounds like the busy
- tone and the dial tone. When I call Japan, I hear Japanese phone
- ringing noise - which is QUITE different from US phone ringing
- noise. I might not be hearing the ringing of the phone in the house
- I'm calling (in fact, I'd definitely doubt this) but I am not
- hearing MY phone either. I think it's generated somewhere in
- between. Once I dial the country code for Japan, all the sounds etc
- are generated by NTT (Nippon Telephone and Telegraph) and not ATT, I
- think.
- Maiko Covington ee152fdm@sdcc15.ucsd.edu
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