A signal sent to the telephone company's central office that says a call has been connected (primarily used for long-distance phone calls to start the billing time).
The signal sent by the ACD or other device to the local or long distance carrier to accept a calland triggers a billing event from the carrier.
A telephone system feature that returns a momentary drop in loop current when a connection has been established. When call progress analysis detects a transient loop current drop, it returns a connect event.
The ability of a central office to detect when a long distance call has been answered - used to determine whether or not the call can be billed.
An off–hook supervisory signal.
The off-hook indication sent back to the originating end when the called station answers.
The signal sent by the ACD or other device to the local or long distance carrier to accept a call. ThatÃs when billing for either the caller or the call center will begin, if long distance charges apply.
To accurately start billing, when the called party answers the phone, thus assuring the price of your calls will be accurate.
Network call status signals passed from terminating CO to the originating CO that give the status of a call. Signals are available only to LECs, IXCs and other switches on the network. Privately owned devises or CPE must provide their own circuity to determine the status of a call.
Answer supervision is a term in telephony, describing a situation whereby the called party indicates to the central office that the call is being answered by the called party. by allowing loop current to flow in the line.