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tickmike
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Clear Down ?.
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November 25, 2008, 08:30:49 PM »
Hi.
The phrase 'Clear Down' as used by BT engineers, where did it come from ?.
The only thing I can think of is the 'Strowger unislectors switches' that where used in the telephone exchanges, when they were not in use they went down to the bottom of there stroke.
Hence clearing down .
Any ideas ?.
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November 26, 2008, 09:13:22 PM »
No idea where it comes from sorry..
I just take it that the term means to hang up or disconnected.
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November 27, 2008, 12:51:09 PM »
More and more of our automated services which we access via phone has the term Clear down meaning "hang up" or "on hook" The strowger theory sounds good other wise I've no idea. Although there's no hook as such to complete a call with a mobile and our butt phones have an off hook button to break dial tone
(when i initaly started on the engineering side I was buddied up with an engineer who whilst needing both hands up a step ladder to sort a box out passed his butt phone to me and said "here, grab hold of my butt for me" then I felt aware of the customer peeking past the kitchen door obviously wondering what was going on with her interpretation of what she'd just heard. hence I use the expresion Butt-phone
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