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  2. Phantom vibration syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Phantom vibration syndrome or phantom ringing syndrome is the perception that one's mobile phone is vibrating or ringing when it is not. Other terms for this concept include ringxiety (a portmanteau of ring and anxiety), fauxcellarm (a portmanteau of "faux" /foʊ/ meaning "fake" or "false" and "cellphone" and "alarm" pronounced similarly to "false alarm") and phonetom (a portmanteau of phone ...

  3. Phone etiquette 101: When it’s rude to be on speaker — and ...

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    You’re going to experience things that turn a simple phone call into a frustrating moment: Calls are going to get dropped, weird echos will occur. Remember to blame the device and not the person.

  4. ‘Your dad’s in trouble.’ One family’s desperate hunt as the ...

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    In canoes, in high-water vehicles, on foot and online, they went hunting for people whose cell phones were ringing straight to voicemail. Who’d never shown up. Who weren’t where they were ...

  5. AOL Dialer: Fix common problems - AOL Help

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    For Voicemail users only - If you have voicemail service through your telephone company, a “staggered” dial tone is played when messages are waiting. This special tone may interrupt the modem’s ability to detect a dial tone. To configure dialing options for voicemail users:

  6. Telephone phobia - Wikipedia

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    A fear of receiving calls may range from fear of the action or thought of answering the phone to fear of its actual ringing. The ringing can generate a string of anxieties, characterized by thoughts associated with having to speak, perform and converse. [2] [6] Sufferers may perceive the other end as threatening or intimidating. [7]

  7. Busy signal - Wikipedia

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    The ETSI recommendation is also the default (i.e. non-localized) busy tone generated by mobile phones that follow the GSM & 3GPP family of standards. The ETSI recommendation is also followed by some ISDN equipment and PBX/office systems found outside Europe. Most countries of the former Soviet Union, including Russia, are not members of the ETSI.

  8. Free voicemail: How to avoid paying to check your cell phone ...

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    The one that stood out to me was that most customers are paying an extra $2 to $3 a bill to listen to voicemail. Thanks to the Free voicemail: How to avoid paying to check your cell phone messages

  9. Dial tone - Wikipedia

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    Some later ringing machines also generated a 50 Hz dial tone. The modern dial tone varies between countries. The Precise Tone Plan for the North American Numbering Plan of the US , Canada , and various Caribbean nations specifies a combination of two tones (350 Hz and 440 Hz) which, when mixed, creates a beat frequency of 90 Hz.