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"If you'd like to make a call, please hang up and try again. If you need help, hang up and then dial your operator. This is a recording."). A single burst of off-hook tone is sometimes used to indicate to a party that the call is being transferred, notably at 1-800-BELL-SOUTH (800-235-5768).
A CNN survey found that 70 percent of callers in the United States who hold the line in silence hang up within 60 seconds. [5] Meanwhile, research by North American Telecom found callers hearing music on hold will stay on the line 30 seconds longer than callers experiencing silence.
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).
If you'd like to make a call, please hang up and try again. If you need help, hang up and then dial your operator. A formerly-used variation of this message was as follows: "This is a recording. Please hang up. There appears to be a receiver off the hook. Please check your main telephone and extensions, then try your call again. Thank you."
[1] The Bell Telephone Manufacturing Company (BTMC) in Antwerp, Belgium, Western Electric's international subsidiary, first introduced dial tone as a standard facility with the cutover of the 7A Rotary Automatic Machine Switching System at Darlington, England, on 10 October 1914. Dial tone was an essential feature, because the 7A Rotary system ...
Earlier systems also lack fast forwarding and rewinding playback controls on MP3. [83] [84] MPEG-1 frames contain the most detail in 320 kbit/s mode, the highest allowable bit rate setting, [85] with silence and simple tones still requiring 32 kbit/s. MPEG-2 frames can capture up to 12 kHz sound reproductions needed up to 160 kbit/s.
Released as the lead single from the album, the song reached No. 3 on the US Billboard Rock Tracks chart, No. 27 on the US Billboard Hot 100, [2] and No. 32 in Canada. [3] It later appeared on their 1987 compilation album Flashback: The Best of 38 Special and their 1999 live album Live at Sturgis.
Combining classical orchestration with mechanical sounds, May's work on Mad Max is notable for its distinctive soundscape that interacts with the film's diegetic sounds. [5] "Mad Max was a strongly energized score in the violence/action department, and for that they wanted a totally non-melodic score," explained May. "It was very jagged and ...