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Telecommunication equipment such as fax machines and modems are designed to recognize certain tones, such as dial tone and busy tone. The ITU-T E.180 and E.182 recommendations define the technical characteristics and intended usage of some of these tones. ToneScript is a tone description format that may be used to specify the tone.
In some instances the Number Unobtainable Tone may be used instead. This is a continuous, uninterrupted 400 Hz tone. The signal is used to indicate that the destination is unreachable, either because all circuits (trunks) are busy, the called number is out of service, the call is unroutable, or sometimes that an invalid code has been dialed. [1]
486 Busy Here Callee is busy. [1]: §21.4.24 487 Request Terminated Request has terminated by bye or cancel. [1]: §21.4.25 488 Not Acceptable Here Some aspect of the session description or the Request-URI is not acceptable. [1]: §21.4.26 489 Bad Event The server did not understand an event package specified in an Event header field.
Dialing *70 can prevent the call from completing when the phone line does not have the call waiting feature active. Leave this option unchecked if you are no longer able to connect. 3. Check or uncheck, “I have to dial this number to reach an outside line” depending on your telephone line. Normally, this should not be selected.
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 ...
An otherwise unspecified busy signal indicates that the called number is occupied: The called number is talking with another caller on the phone; The number is calling out; Someone else has called the number or is calling the number at the same time; The other line was left off-hook; It is otherwise unavailable
Reproduction of an iOS phone disconnect tone (not the original audio) 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 ...
Wrong number scams — in which con artists send out huge batches of eye-grabbing but innocuous texts — have become the introduction du jour for scammers looking for people to bilk for money