When you ring the number back, the call is immediately dropped or an
engaged tone is played and the victim is charged.
Tickets went on sale earlier this week but all I got was a constant
engaged tone.
A window has been broken, the frame above it is rusting inside and out and the number 0121 643 1592 offers nothing but an
engaged tone.
"I then started calling them and have been calling them three times a day for two weeks and there has never been an answer, it just goes to an
engaged tone.
Yes, every table was taken and it had taken several calls to get through as the phone was forever ringing the
engaged tone.
Gone are the days of hearing the
engaged tone as you attempt to ring the local Masjid to find out about the moon; social media will answer your query with a tap of the screen.
An
engaged tone tops the list of most annoying sounds, named by 29% of those polled, followed by rock music (22%) and background music with no specific tune (21%).
Some were cut off and others got the
engaged tone. Rugby league fan Andy Bell, of Featherstone, West Yorks, said: "It took 100-plus calls to register one vote for Kevin Sinfield."
By 5pm, around 200 people had got through to speak to the trio, with thousands more getting an
engaged tone or a recorded message.
The idea that you may be the one to lose out on a final ticket while your screen is locked or you constantly get the
engaged tone eats away at the soul.
People wanting to buy tickets for this summer's Commonwealth Games were faced with long delays and problems with transactions earlier this week while it has emerged that callers to the ticket line were charged while listening to the
engaged tone.
She said that while they are introducing a low-rate 01656 number, this poses its own problems because unlike the 0845 number, which offers call queuing, patients may be met with an
engaged tone at busy times.