atcomsystems.ca/forum Forums General General Telephone & Systems Information Telephone sounds round the world

I am quite sure that this URL is known by all of you. I stumbled into this site while looking for something else. It details all the various tones and cadances of telephone systems round the world. You can pick the tone you want and search for or pick a particular country and listen to the actual sound. Was fascinating, to me at least. You can sign in as a guest temporaily without registering.

https://www.3amsystems.com/wireline/tone-search.htm?

Regards,
Sam

Interesting, although for the U.K. I note they don't have ringback tone listed. The "Congestion tone - special" entry is also rather odd, as it sounds more like a North American announcement.

"Negative indication tone" is also a curious legend. The cadence of that tone is the opposite of our standard ringing cadence (i.e. on and off periods reversed), and was generally called inverse ringtone here. It was used in the past as a remote test indication for small unattended offices, sometimes a single 400Hz tone as there, but often a modulated ringtone.

I need to know how to turn on the ringer on my phone! help...it's an NEC DTerm 80 phone and I have 3 phones here in my office that won't ring. Can anybody help me?

open a new thread in the NEC forum. That would be a place to start.

I went to the NEC forum, but couldn't figure out how to post a new thread. Could you either tell me where to do that or perhaps put it on there for me? I just need to know what button to push for the ringer. And I'm new here.

Go to the NEC forum and up at the top, under the Sundance logo, click on "Post New Topic." It looks like this:

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