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> From: Frank Taylor [mailto:taylor_f -at- netvision -dot- net -dot- il]
> Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 4:13 PM
> In Telephony, what, if at all, is the exact difference between:
> An 'outbound call' and an 'outgoing call'
> An 'inbound call' and an 'incoming call'?
John's answer sounded good. From my days with Ericsson,
I recall somebody making a distinction between the
initial handshake/call-setup versus the successful
completion.
That is, inbound and outbound might have been used
for attempts, and then incoming and outgoing were
used for those that were successfully connected.
(Sometimes attempts failed, for whatever reason,
and sometimes they were "intentionally" failed
for any number of reasons, including successful
operation of the fraud-detection protocols, or
due to customer-selected options [blocking], etc.)
Of course, my milieu was cellular, and John's may
have been landline. For that matter, I can't really
say if it was an official distinction, or just one
that a few support engineers used among themselves
within my earshot.
Hope that confused the issue. :-)
/kevin
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