Re: 1956 -- circuit reliability book

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From: Andy Burns
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 18:09

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AndyW wrote:

> Huge wrote:
>
>> 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.

The called party could always terminate the call with use of RECALL and 
the secondary dial tone, but a year or two ago BT implemented called 
party cleardown (i.e. the timeout Huge mentions is now pretty short.)

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