<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 8:32 PM, Peter Beckman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:beckman@angryox.com" target="_blank">beckman@angryox.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im"><br></div>
That's what I'm asking. Is there a standard tone to play while the carrier is<br>
waiting for a connect? Sometimes it takes a second, and even that one<br>
second of silence after the caller places the call makes them think<br>
something is broken, or get dissatisfied with the service.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I would say either 1 second of 'comfort noise', or stretch the dialtone out an additional second.</div><div><br></div><div>
However, you should strive to eliminate such delays. If there is a delay of 1 or 2 whole seconds, or worse, before the remote switch is ringing, something seems quite wrong.</div><div><br></div><div>Playing any tone other than "RING" is going to likely be an unfamiliar tone or out of place tone and cause even more confusion or error reports than 1 second of silence.<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>Although one might look at the possibility of a modified 'ringback' tone, that sounds distinctive: it would seem to be equally disallowed by the new rules, for telcos. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
</blockquote><div>--</div><div>-JH </div></div></div></div>