At 12:54 AM 7/30/2004, Robert Rolf wrote:

>You may be able to get away with just passing a couple
>of cycles of ring to the phone. Most phone firmware
>isn't that smart and probably starts listening
>for CID immediately after seeing the ring signal stop.

AFAIK, CID is sent after the first ring.

Also, the audio path is present before the phone is answered.
Several devices out there depend on this.

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