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Originally posted by EV607797:
I think that the true benefit for ground-start trunks was to eliminate call collisions or "glare" where an outgoing call was attempted at precisely the same time that a call was coming in over the same trunk.
Ed -

True. But true disconnect was also part of the equation. There used to be a thing called "Calling Party Disconnect" where if the calling party DIDN'T hang up then the call would stay up forever. Ground Start took care of things like that.

Sam


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