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Article #619754Re: 1956 -- circuit reliability book
From: AndyW
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 07:00
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 07:00
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On 29/01/2018 17:03, Huge wrote: > On 2018-01-29, Scott Lurndal <scott@slp53.sl.home> wrote: >> Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes: > > [18 lines snipped] > >>> The one Hollywoodism that always bothered me is the way a telephone >>> reverts to a dial tone when the other end hang up. I've never heard >>> this in real life, but maybe it's regional thing. Can anyone from >>> New York say whether this really happens there? >> >> Happens that way everywhere I've been in the USA. > > Doesn't happen in the UK. And indeed, the called party cannot make a > call until the calling party has hung up or some timeout expires. and a number of banking & police scams depend on the fact that the call is not terminated until the caller hangs up. Andy
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