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Volume 31 : Issue 128 : "text" Format
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Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 10:25:25 -0400
From: tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Q.: Message waiting light ... how?
Message-ID: <1gnfwe7pv4kmy$.h6pz9hyzkp3c.dlg@40tude.net>
For about a year, now, sporadically, our little ILEC-supplied, stand-alone,
Caller-ID box has taken to flashing an amber "Message Waiting" light after
an unanswered inbound call has stopped ringing. Rarely -- maybe once or
twice a month. More usually it turns on a steady, green, "New Caller-ID
info" light instead. (Same LED lamp for both lights -- a 2-color device.)
We have no ILEC-supplied voice mail, so there's no actual message awaiting
us. And going off-hook long enough to hear 5-10 seconds worth of dial tone
is enough to make that "Message Waiting" lamp turn off.
So, my question is: what sorts of signal on the line might be causing that
lamp to light? or to extinguish?
TIA for any known facts.
Cheers,
tlvp
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Avant de repondre, jeter la poubelle, SVP.
Date: 26 May 2012 17:06:48 -0000
From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Q.: Message waiting light ... how?
Message-ID: <20120526170648.75831.qmail@joyce.lan>
>So, my question is: what sorts of signal on the line might be causing that
>lamp to light? or to extinguish?
Look up the ADSI standard. There are specific tone signals to turn
the message waiting light on and off.
R's,
John
Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 07:11:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: Wes Leatherock <wleathus@yahoo.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: In Race For Better Cell Service, Men Who Climb Towers Pay With Their Lives
Message-ID: <1338041488.84553.YahooMailClassic@web111715.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
--- On Fri, 5/25/12, Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> wrote:
> In Race For Better Cell Service, Men Who Climb Towers Pay
> With Their Lives
>
> Ryan Knutson, PBS Frontline, and Liz Day
> ProPublica
> May 22, 2012
The brother of my son's best friend, who was also the best man at his
wedding, was killed falling from a tower he was working on. Not a
cellular tower, however. I believe it was a TV antenna tower.
Wes Leatherock
wleathus@yahoo.com
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