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ringing tone

Intelephone and mobile networks, there are various tone signals that indicate the connection status to the caller.

The best-known tones are the dial tone, the ring tone and the busy tone. The aforementioned tone signals have a tone frequency of 425 Hz and differ only in their timing: the ratio between the tone signal and the pause signal.

The ringing tone indicates to the caller that the dialed connection has been switched and that the call has reached the called party. The ringing tone ends only when the called party picks up the phone. It has a tone frequency of 425 Hz, a tone duration of 1,000 ms and a pause duration of 4,000 ms. In addition to the above-mentioned tones, there is also a special dial tone, a connection tone, a call waiting tone and an advisory tone.

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Englisch: ringing tone
Updated at: 17.09.2011
#Words: 135
Links: connection, busy tone (BT), frequency (f), hertz (Hz), signal
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