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The reorder tone, also known as the fast busy tone, or the congestion tone, or all trunks busy (ATB) tone is an audible call progress tone in the public switched telephone network (PSTN) that is returned to a calling party to indicate that the call cannot be processed through the network.
Like a dial tone or busy signal, the SIT is an in-band signal intended both to be heard by the caller, and to be detected by automated dialing equipment to determine a call has failed. In North America, the AT&T/Bellcore SIT standard allows the frequency and duration of the tones to vary slightly - making eight distinct messages specifically ...
If you’re trying to reach your loved ones: Text, don’t call. Some government agencies encourage a “text first, talk second” approach to keep phone lines open for emergency calls.
A disconnect tone in telephony is a tone provided to the remaining party to a call after the remote party hangs up. [1] [2] Typically, the disconnect tone is a few cycles of the reorder, busy, or the off-hook tone (e.g. in US), or between five and fifteen seconds of the Number Unobtainable tone (e.g. in UK).
1. Check or uncheck, “I have to dial this number to turn off call waiting.” 2. Confirm the proper code is listed. For most telephone services, this code is *70. Note: If your connection problems persist, try removing the checkmark for call waiting. Dialing *70 can prevent the call from completing when the phone line does not have the call ...
In many cases, when calling from abroad, busy, reorder and other call failure tones may be played by the local switch. Modern signalling protocols like SS7 send this information digitally; thus only a ringback tone or announcement generated by a distant switch in a foreign network will ever be heard by callers from other countries or networks.
A signal that informs a busy telephone user that another call originator is waiting for a connection. Synonym: call waiting A teleprinter exchange facility signal that automatically causes a calling station to retry the call-receiver number after a given interval when the call-receiver teleprinter is occupied or the circuits are busy.
The number and digits at the end identify the network edge or Tandem switch the caller's local exchange company routed the call to. There is also a network message heard when an attempt to route a call to a nodal or ISDN T1 on the terminating end fails due to no call set-up signal from the PBX being received by the far-end Tandem or edge switch ...