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  2. Trap and trace device - Wikipedia

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    Title 18 of the United States Code defines a trap and trace device as follows: . The term "trap and trace device" means a device or process which captures the incoming electronic or other impulses which identify the originating number or other dialing, routing, addressing, and signaling information reasonably likely to identify the source of a wire or electronic communication, provided ...

  3. Call-progress tone - Wikipedia

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    In telephony, call progress tones are audible tones that provide an indication of the status of a telephone call to the user. The tones are generated by a central office or a private branch exchange (PBX) to the calling party .

  4. Ground start - Wikipedia

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    To avoid glare, before the PBX originates an outgoing call, it must first verify that the CO has not already applied ground to tip. The PBX has 100ms to sense this condition. At the end of either an incoming or outgoing call, the PBX initiates disconnect by going on-hook, or the central office initiates disconnect by opening tip.

  5. Ringing tone - Wikipedia

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    When the call routing is successful and the receiving telephone is not already in a call, the destination telephone receives an electrical signal, called power ringing, or the ring tone, to alert the recipient of the incoming call. During this period of alerting, the caller also receives a distinctive signal, audible ringing, also called ...

  6. Telephone exchange - Wikipedia

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    When a subscriber dialed the number of a manual station, an operator at the destination office answered the call after seeing the number on an indicator, and connected the call by plugging a cord into the outgoing circuit and ringing the destination station. For example, if a dial customer calling from TAylor 4725 dialed a number served by a ...

  7. Statewide outage impacting 911 calls, phone and ... - AOL

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    In Des Moines, phone lines went down at 5 a.m. Thursday, city officials said in a statement. 911 calls are only being completed through wireless phones. ***ATTENTION*** Administrative phone lines ...

  8. He’s in landline hell. So who should he call about a faulty ...

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    In 2003 Congress passed a law creating the do not call registry, listing telephone numbers of families demanding that telemarketers not contact them. I signed up that year and just verified I am ...

  9. List of telephony terminology - Wikipedia

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    Call originator - (or calling party, caller or A-party) a person or device that initiates a telephone call by dialling a telephone number. Call waiting - a system that notifies a caller of another incoming telephone call by sounding a sound in the earpiece. Called party - (or callee or B-party) Caller; Calling party; Conference call (multi ...