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- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 19:20:49 GMT
- From: glenn@rigel.econ.uga.edu (Glenn F. Leavell)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Why Does Phone Bell 'Ping' on a Regular Basis?
- Message-ID: <telecom13.8.9@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: University of Georgia, Athens
- Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 13, Issue 8, Message 9 of 11
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- It seems that I've seen discussion on the following topic in the
- TELECOM Digest before, but I can't remember the answer or find
- anything relevant in the archive index.
-
- My parents live in Mississippi and get their local phone service from
- South Central Bell. According to my parents, the bells in their
- phones make a 'ping' every evening around 10:15PM. They say that the
- ping almost always occurs around the same time, but that on certain
- nights it may not occur until close to midnight. They've called South
- Central Bell about this, and they were told that the ping was NOT
- occuring due to anything that the phone company was doing.
-
- By calling my parents number, I have not been able to find a way to
- duplicate the ping myself -- I always end up creating at least one
- full ring.
-
- What is the likely cause of this ping? Is it possible that some
- individual is doing it as an annoyance, or is it more likely a problem
- from within the phone system?
-
- Thank you.
-
-
- Glenn Leavell University of Georgia glenn@creator.ucns.uga.edu 706-542-5110
- University Computing and Networking Services, Athens, GA 30602-1911
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