On 2006-11-26, news <news@care4free.net> wrote:
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> In message <4sttn1F11fqnjU1@mid.individual.net>, Ivor Jones
><ivor@despammed.invalid> writes[color=green]
>>"news" <news@care4free.net> wrote in message
>>news:raw1k8FnQVaFFwrj@care4free.net[color=darkred]
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>>> 1. When you pick up the phone, do you always get a dial
>>> tone?[/color]
>>
>>Depends on your ATA - dial tone is generated by the ATA not by the
>>provider.
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>
> You're right, of course, but that isn't quite what I was getting at. You
> will only get the dial tone if the phone is registered. If the VoIP
> provider's system has crashed or is otherwise unavailable, the ATA or
> VoIP phone will fall back to a non-registered condition and you will not
> get a dial tone. The availability of the provider's system was what I
> had in mind in my question.[/color]

To eliminate the dial tone on a SPA2000 it is necessary to have a line
not registered and the parameter 'Make Call Without Reg:' set to 'no'.
With 'Make Call Without Reg:' as 'yes' there is a dial tone. Other ATAs
or softphones may behave differently I suppose but I cannot see why they
should.

Brian.