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- From: lmalloy@abacus.bates.EDU (Laura G. Malloy)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Why Does Phone Bell 'Ping' on a Regular Basis?
- Message-ID: <telecom13.15.4@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 08:14:17 GMT
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 13, Issue 15, Message 4 of 10
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- In article <telecom13.8.9@eecs.nwu.edu> glenn@rigel.econ.uga.edu
- (Glenn F. Leavell) writes:
-
- > 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.
-
- [deletia]
-
- Same thing happens to us in Clinton, NY, each evening (sometimes
- weekends, too) at just about 11 PM. I've always assumed some sort of
- telco testing was going on, but it would be nice to know exactly what
- they are doing!
-
-
- Joe Malloy/WB2RBA German Department/Hamilton College/Clinton, NY
-