[LINK] 'Do not call' phone list Bill shelved

[Antony Barry]

On 5 Nov 2005, at 6:29 PM, Robin Whittle wrote:

> There is a chap in the UK who has been working hard on the problem of
> "silent calls" - which include calls resulting from technical failure,
> and especially the calls made by predictive dialers when no  
> operator is
> available to handle the answered call.

I get something like that. The phone rings and when I answer it I get  
a soft beep every few seconds and nobody comes on the line. It's not  
the scream of a modem and I was wondering what it was. Is this what a  
silent call does??

Tony