erik@LOCUS.UCLA.EDU (Erik Mueller) (10/28/85)
Newsgroups: mod.telecom Subject: Re: Daa daa daa - the number... Summary: Expires: References: <8510210346.AA26008@UCB-VAX> Sender: Reply-To: erik@ucla-cs.UUCP (Erik Mueller) Followup-To: Distribution: Organization: UCLA Computer Science Dept. Keywords: In article <8510210346.AA26008@UCB-VAX> jcp@BRL.ARPA (Joe Pistritto) writes: > > The three tone burst at the beginning of phone intercept >announcements appears to be international, by the way. I recently dialed >a wrong number in Basel Switzerland (from the US), and got the three tone >burst associated with 'the number you have dialed is not in service, please >check the number and dial again', except that the announcement was in >German (!). I recognized the tones however, and realized what had >happened. I have only heard one set of tones however, does anyone know >what the different sequences mean? > > -JCP- If those are the same tones that I have heard in France (an arpeggiated major seven chord: 1 5 7, as I recall), we now have those same tones in certain Los Angeles ESSs as the standard local incorrect-code recording (not intercept). Speaking of intercept, I noticed that in California, they don't bother with AIS, CIB, or ONI intercept; they just give you a wrong number recording that is the same no matter what number you dial. Does anyone know why that is the policy here? Too many numbers to bother with it? Too many transient college students? Or is it only GTE that does this? -Erik