My wife and I recently went on an Adriatic Cruise for our honeymoon. While in Koper, Slovenia, we walked up to the top of the Koper Bell Tower. We checked the ringing schedule that was posted and it didn’t look like it was going to ring while we were up there… however, it was a Sunday and we missed the special time that was listed only for Sunday. As we started back down the tower the bells started ringing… scared the crap out of us and was loud as hell. For more info on the Tower check here: www.slovenia.info To see an actual climbing and views from the top, check here: www.youtube.com
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Huh? Can’t hear you.
WHAAAAAAAAT?!
Different countries use different telecommunication standards and the "ring cadence" at the receiving end may be different to the pattern used in your country.
For example, in Britain and Australia, phones ring in sets of two 400ms short ring bursts with a 200ms pause in-between the short rings followed by a longer 2 second pause. In North America, the standard ring cadence is a long 2 second ring followed by an even longer 4 second pause. North America also has special ring cadences in some cases (e.g. a long distance call may ring as one long ring followed by two short burst rings).
When you call another country, your phone call will be passed on to the telephone exchange in the receiving country and thus you will hear the rings and tones produced by the foreign country's phone routing equipment, not that of your local provider.
It is possible in some cases for your own telephone service provider to play their own ring instead of the foreign ring while the call is being connected, but this is not recommended because if something goes wrong while the call is routing on the foreign end, you might not have any idea (e.g. you may continue to hear ringing on the line, but an error prevented the call from even making it to the called party in the first place and it's not actually ringing on the other end). For this reason, it is "best practice" to pass the audio from the foreign telephone exchange back to the calling party regardless of whether the tones/rings will sound foreign to the calling party.