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  2. Off-hook tone - Wikipedia

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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).

  3. Pocket dialing - Wikipedia

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    Typically, a call is caused by the person's movement changing the shape of the pocket in a person's clothing in such a way that a small amount of pressure is applied to some of the buttons, or in the case of a touch screen phone, a call can also be caused by the screen of the phone facing the person's body and a small amount of perspiration ...

  4. iPhone 7 - Wikipedia

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    The iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus [a] are smartphones that were developed and marketed by Apple Inc. They are the tenth generation of the iPhone.They were announced on September 7, 2016, at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco by Apple CEO Tim Cook, and were released on September 16, 2016, succeeding the iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus as the flagship devices in ...

  5. How to stop robocalls and spam calls for good - AOL

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    Stop answering the phone “A good tip is to stop answering any unknown numbers. This way, your line won’t be seen as ‘active,’ and they will stop calling.” —Grant Aldrich, CEO of ...

  6. Silence suppression - Wikipedia

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    For this reason, so-called comfort noise needs to be generated to compensate for the lack of background noise. The ingress end must therefore signal the egress end that silence suppression is in effect. For best results, the level of comfort noise being generated on egress should match that of the background noise at the ingress end.

  7. On her latest quest to break up big tech, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is targeting Apple. In a video posted on X, Warren highlighted how the iPhone maker's use of green text messages is ...

  8. Nuisance call - Wikipedia

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    A nuisance call is an unwanted and unsolicited telephone call. Common types of nuisance calls include prank calls, telemarketing calls, and silent calls. Obscene phone calls and other threatening calls are criminal acts in most jurisdictions, particularly when hate crime is involved. [1] Unsolicited calls may also be used to initiate telephone ...

  9. Comfort noise - Wikipedia

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    the speech may sound "choppy" (see noise gate) and difficult to understand; the sudden change in sound level can be jarring to the listener. To counteract these effects, comfort noise is added, usually on the receiving end in wireless or VoIP systems, to fill in the silent portions of transmissions with artificial noise.