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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 19:04:22 GMT
- From: bcapps@atlastele.com (Brent Capps)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Why Does Phone Bell 'Ping' on a Regular Basis?
- Message-ID: <telecom13.15.5@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: Atlas Telecom Inc.
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 13, Issue 15, Message 5 of 10
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- In article <telecom13.8.9@eecs.nwu.edu> glenn@rigel.econ.uga.edu
- (Glenn F. Leavell) writes:
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- > According to my parents, the bells in their phones make a 'ping'
- every evening around 10:15PM.
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- SSB is pulling your leg. Your CO switch is running automatically
- scheduled self-diagnostics. They start every evening at the same
- time, but they're really testing the line cards and not the lines, so
- only one line per card gets 'pinged', typically the first one. I used
- to have a line in Dallas that would ping every evening at 8:15 PM.
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