[Wolves] VOIP

[Matthew Revell]

Re-LoaD's LUG Mail wrote:

> Intermittent dial tone means that there is a divert set up on your line,
> i.e. the divert to the voicemail platform when calls are not answered. You
> will get a different tone when you have a message.
> This happens because the switch you are connected to is a System X switch
> and the voicemail is provided off site by a centigram platform, so the
> system X just treats the call as an ordinary call divert. If you were in
> Birmingham this would not be the case as the centigram interfaces with the
> DMS switch via a signalling path allowing the switch to know it can divert
> the call to the voicemail platform as if the centigram was another switch. I
> could go on for hours but I'm sure your all asleep by now :).

Cool. That sort of thing interests me. Telewest really should make that 
clear to their customers and to most people it just sounds as tho' 
there's a message.

Do you know where the Wolverhampton switch is? I heard it was Coseley.