Re: All American Monitoring

["Bob La Londe" <nospam@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Jim Rojas" <jrojas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:RBK_o.1021$OY2.174@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> mleuck wrote:
>> On Jan 22, 5:49 pm, "RockyTSquirrel"<gafa_...@xxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>>> Jim,
>>> Ever had the phone company equipment alter the tones to the point that
>>> CID
>>> were transmitted as one thing  but were received  as another?
>>>
>>> Some places  in our region of this state  it had happened..    AT&T,
>>> gota
>>> love-em....
>>>
>>> RTS
>>
>> LOL! not possible
>>
>
> DSL signals can do some strange things to CID.

The digital compression by some long distance carriers will distort the
tones.  The biggest problem and it cost me a couple grand in extra toll
charges was panels not being able to recognize the kissoff signal, and
resending the signals again.  Some of the older panels would send the signal
two or three times, hangup, and then call to send it again.  I could listen
to the call and clearly hear the kissoff, but it was distorted enough the
panels would not recognize it.

If you are lucky you can hear a little tinnieness to voice range, but
sometimes the tone is just distorted.  The central stations receivers seemed
to be able to recognize all the incoming signals though.  That's what clued
me into the cause.  I changed carriers and the problem went away.

I think it was MCI/Worldcom who raped me when they degraded their signal
quality to save money and pack more calls in the same bandwidth.  Good
riddance.