So I interpreted this question differently to most other people here, interestingly enough.
So when you call someone, on your headset, you hear a ringing dial tone thingie as the phone “rings” on their end. The question is: If their phone is on silent, do you still hear that noise on your headset?
I imagine so - it’s probably used for many automated systems to detect when you pick up or similar.
So I interpreted this question differently to most other people here, interestingly enough.
So when you call someone, on your headset, you hear a ringing dial tone thingie as the phone “rings” on their end. The question is: If their phone is on silent, do you still hear that noise on your headset?
I imagine so - it’s probably used for many automated systems to detect when you pick up or similar.
Nowadays the ringing you hear isn’t necessarily correlated with a phone ringing on the other end.
Was it ever?
I believe so, back in the day of more analog phone infrastructure
Depends what everyone means here.
It IS a similar sound intentionally to let the caller know that the call has connected, but not yet picked up.
But it was never the actual sound of the other person’s phone transferred through the line.