Well, then why don't the other phones sound out the data string with the
ringers?
Wrong.
Caller id senses the ring and does not go off hook as that would
disturb
the CO and it is uneeded. Instead the ring is an alert
to the caller
ID
that data will follow and it's already camped on
the line using a
non-DC
(capacitor coupled) connection to avoid loading the
line. this allows
it to hear the ring and the data.
Allison
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