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  2. Busy line interrupt - Wikipedia

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    Busy line interrupt, also known as emergency breakthrough, is a function of telephone land line carriers in which a telephone operator, by request of a caller, interrupts an existing phone conversation between other parties. [1] This is especially useful for services without call waiting.

  3. Operator assistance - Wikipedia

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    A third number call or third party call is an operator assisted telephone call that can be billed to the party other than the calling and called party. The operator calls the third number for the party to accept the charges before the call can proceed. Time and charges was a service that could be requested of an operator before a call began ...

  4. Call avoidance - Wikipedia

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    Businesses choose call avoidance techniques because person-to-person service calls are time-consuming [citation needed] and costly [citation needed] and should be accessed only when there is no viable option. Voice calls can then be reserved for high priority customers, complex service requests, or emergency situations where the quick response ...

  5. Emergency telephone number - Wikipedia

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    For example, to decrease the risk of nuisance calls, French and British networks typically do not allow emergency calls without a SIM card. [28] The GSM phones may regard some phone numbers with one or two digits as special service codes. It might be impossible to make an emergency call to numbers like 03 or 92 with a mobile phone. In those ...

  6. Emergency service response codes - Wikipedia

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    An example of a P1 call would be an active armed offender, pursuit or an officer requiring immediate assistance. This is the least common priority used, as most urgent calls fall under the Priority 2 category. The KPI for attendance of P1's is 12 minutes. Priority 2 or P2 is an urgent emergency call with risks of serious injury or damage to ...

  7. 000 (emergency telephone number) - Wikipedia

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    This delay was compounded by a software upgrade on the emergency call handling system used by the Victorian emergency service organisations (ESOs), meaning that Telstra (the national 000 call operator) encountered severe delays in handing over emergency calls to the relevant ESO. This caused some users interviewed by authorities to believe that ...

  8. Here's how to block the emergency alert test. Hint: It's not ...

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    You can't opt out of the national emergency alert test, but you can avoid it. Here's how to silence the alert on your cellphone. ... For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to ...

  9. Silent call - Wikipedia

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    A silent call is a telephone call in which the calling party does not speak when the call is answered. Most such calls are generated by a cold call telemarketing operation's dialer software, which makes many calls automatically and sometimes does not have an agent immediately available to handle an answered call.