I work on a system like this. We provide agricultural advice to farmers (mainly in India and Kenya but also in some other countries). They can leave a missed call on our system, and will receive a call back where they can navigate a menu with information on a variety of topics, or they can record a question which will then be answered by an agronomist (the answer will be pushed to them as a separate call, once it's researched and recorded).
Don't Pick Up: Missed calls in India
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#82I hang up as soon as I can when I hear the beep that gives away it is a sales call.
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#83I hang up as soon as I can when I hear the beep that gives away it is a sales call.
Or the loooong pause after I say "hello"
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#84I work on a system like this. We provide agricultural advice to farmers (mainly in India and Kenya but also in some other countries). They can leave a missed call on our system, and will receive a call back where they can navigate a menu with information on a variety of topics, or they can record a question which will then be answered by an agronomist (the answer will be pushed to them as a separate call, once it's r…
What is the reason for this? Are incoming calls sheaper than outgoing calls?
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#85I recall in Ukraine in nienties some mobile operators did not charge for the first few seconds of a call (I think it was 2 or 3). There was an art of communication around that...
Same in Romania. I think it was somewhere around 1997, they changed that once people started having multiple 2-3 seconds calls. I still wonder what was the reason for that free window, was it a technical limitation?
Maybe it was to solve concerns that people had for being billed for "Oh sorry, wrong number"
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#86I had a friend who's father didn't want to take work related calls at home. To get someone to pick up the phone, I had to call and let the phone ring once, hang up, and call again. It was simple but it worked.
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#88We did that in Bulgaria back in the days as well. We also had a special verb for the act of ringing and hanging up immediately - "to clip" (from Calling line identification presentation = CLIP).
There was also the case where one of your friends would have many free minutes in one of the network. Then you would just "clip" them and the expectation was that they call you, because it was for free.
Re: Don't Pick Up: Missed calls in India
#89We did that in Bulgaria back in the days as well. We also had a special verb for the act of ringing and hanging up immediately - "to clip" (from Calling line identification presentation = CLIP). There was also the case where one of your friends would have many free minutes in one of the network. Then you would just "clip" them and the expectation was that they call you, because it was for free.
Same in Portugal: we called it "dar um toque". Literally: to ring only once. I grew up with this.
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#90I work on a system like this. We provide agricultural advice to farmers (mainly in India and Kenya but also in some other countries). They can leave a missed call on our system, and will receive a call back where they can navigate a menu with information on a variety of topics, or they can record a question which will then be answered by an agronomist (the answer will be pushed to them as a separate call, once it's r…
What is the reason for this? Are incoming calls sheaper than outgoing calls?
I guess only the caller has to pay, it's always been like that in my country.