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From: "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
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Subject: Re: How to send the person calling a busy signal.
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2025 22:58:58 +0100
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On 2025-02-19 22:45, micky wrote:
> I have an 84-year old friend who lives in another town.  Now that he's
> moved, he only has a cell.   Today I called him and after a few rings,
> he seemed to anseron hut I only heard a couple "uh"s and then got a busy
> signal.
> 
> What can the person receiving a call possibly do to give me a busy
> signal once he has answered, or even before he answers???
> 
> With a cellphone or, for that matter, if it had been a wired phone?
> 
> I hung up and waited 5 minutes to give him a chance to call me, but when
> he didnt' I called and there was no answer.  90 minutes later I called
> again and it was like the first time, but with even less noises at the
> other until I got the busy signal.
> 
> Disregarding the busy signal, whose ofigin I could not fathom, I
> envisioned him answering the phone but unable to bring it to his mouth.
> He's had a lot weakness lately.   And I called his son who lives nearby
> to alert him.  His son writes that he talked to him and he's fine.   So
> what accounts for all this including the busy signals??

Bad network.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.