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  2. Off-hook tone - Wikipedia

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    In the United Kingdom, a warbling signal sounding rather like an alarm siren is played at steadily increasing volume to a telephone left off-hook and unused on telephone lines provided by the BT Group and many PABX extensions. It is sometimes referred to as a howler. In some cases it is composed of the DTMF tones * and # played alternately.

  3. Alarm clock - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 23 January 2025. Type of clock A traditional wind-up (key-wound), mechanical spring-powered alarm clock An alarm clock or alarm is a clock that is designed to alert an individual or group of people at a specified time. The primary function of these clocks is to awaken people from their night's sleep or ...

  4. Civil defense siren - Wikipedia

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    The end of danger is signaled by a 1-minute continuous tone. Warning sirens are tested on the first Monday of every month at noon. The testing alarm is shorter than the general alarm (only lasting for 7 or 14 seconds) and may be a flat tone. The system commonly uses Teho-Ulvo sirens, which are electronic and are powered by horn loudspeaker arrays.

  5. Radio Interface Layer - Wikipedia

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    The Android Open Source Project provides a Radio Interface Layer (RIL) between Android telephony services (android.telephony) and the radio hardware. It consists of a stack of two components: a RIL Daemon and a Vendor RIL. The RIL Daemon talks to the telephony services and dispatches "solicited commands" to the Vendor RIL.

  6. Beebdroid - Wikipedia

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    This video game software -related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

  7. Beep line - Wikipedia

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    [19]: 1 While beep lines were not initially illegal in the United States, [16] [b] they were frowned upon by the telephone companies because of their potential to overload a main trunk line in a central office, [4] preventing normal telephone service for a given area and potentially leading to outages for critical lines such as hospitals and ...

  8. Pager - Wikipedia

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    A pager, also known as a beeper or bleeper, [1] is a wireless telecommunications device that receives and displays alphanumeric or voice messages. One-way pagers can only receive messages, while response pagers and two-way pagers can also acknowledge, reply to, and originate messages using an internal transmitter.

  9. Radio clock - Wikipedia

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    A modern LF radio-controlled clock. A radio clock or radio-controlled clock (RCC), and often colloquially (and incorrectly [1]) referred to as an "atomic clock", is a type of quartz clock or watch that is automatically synchronized to a time code transmitted by a radio transmitter connected to a time standard such as an atomic clock.