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Re: [ATT CV] HEP WANTED " With Att VOIP" APPLY WIT OK HERE IS THE REAL TECHNICAL ANSWER.....oh sorry...lol
Remember why you paid so much for your old pots line? It was regulated. There were rules. The government enforced those rules. The result was a standard phone line with the same class of service treatments no matter where in the "former Bell System" you had service.
Along comes totally unregulated VOIP. No one has to do anything as far as a standard is concerned. Answering machines are basically stupid Luddite Friendly pieces of equipment and they really don't know when your caller has stopped speaking so the regulated phone companies came up with a feature called "cutoff on disconnect" or COD which provides a momentary circuit open condition. The voltage drops to zero for this period and your answering machine shuts off. Clever and regulated.
Voip does not do this, they don't have to and that's why these services are so cheap. They are not replacements for regular phone service, they are an Internet transported means of communications which mimics pots service but not completely.
So you'll just have to put up with that guys voice or use the Callvantage provided voice mail. |
