Foreign Telephone Tones

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Tones From Beyond the UK

This is by no means a comprehensive collection of world telephone tones, but I've included all of the non-UK tones that I have at present. I shall add new ones as-and-when...

+1 USA - Busy Tone 32Kb
+1 USA - Redial Annct 124KB "Your call cannot be completed as dialled..." (Thanks to Twilight Isotope)
+1 USA - Off Hook Signal 12Kb
+1 USA - Unknown 70Kb
+1 APAUPCS Antigau and Barbuda Testosterone Line 130Kb
+1 USA All Circuits Busy 27Kb
+1 IDA Equipment Engaged Tone (?!) 37Kb
+1 USA - New York Temperature (vintage recording 1980's)
+1 USA - All Circuits Busy - Message 100 53Kb
+1 USA - USA - Sorry and Disconnected 141Kb
+1 473 Grenada - Cable and Wireless Caribbean Cellular Unavailable 68Kb
+20 Egypt - Ring Tone 28Kb
+223 Mali - Musical Announcement 90Kb
+243 Congo Dem Rep - Beeps 37Kb
+267 Botswana - Ring Tone 27Kb
+27 South Africa - Nice (subjectively speaking) Ring Tone 24Kb
+27 South Africa - Ring Tone 48Kb
+27 South Africa - Ring Tone 103Kb
+33 France - Ring Tone 48Kb
+355 Albania - Incorrect Number 117Kb
+355 Albania - Vodafone Switched Off (maybe) 99Kb
+371 Latvia - Number Closed 115Kb
+372 Estonia - Dialled Number Is Not In Use - Sexy in a strange sort of way 35Kb
+39 Telecom Italia - Number Does Not Exist 72Kb
+40 Romania - Busy Tone 28Kb
+40 Romania - Busy Tone( mobiles) 48Kb
+40 Romania - Ring Tone 95Kb
+40 Romania - Ring Tone (mobiles) 39Kb
+49 Germany - Scary (suppressed sexual tension) Woman 83Kb
+53 I was calling Cuba but this could be from somewhere else - piano for English only 286Kb
+595 Paraguay - Unknown meaning 24Kb
+597 Suriname - Unknown meaning 48Kb
+64 New Zealand Changed Number 82Kb
+64 New Zealand - Not in Use 65Kb
+65 Singapore - All Circuits Busy 54Kb
+679 Fiji - Ring Tone 32Kb
+82 Korea - Apologies and Piano 'music' 170Kb
+84 Vietnam - Apologies and small muzak backing band. Thanks to Chris Hughes! 212Kb
+86 China - Busy Tone 31Kb
+86 China - Congestion Tone 29Kb
+86 China - Unknown meaning 44Kb
+86 China - Mobile Subscriber is 'Power Off' 42Kb
+873 Inmarsat - Invalid 85Kb
+873 Inmarsat - Number Does Not Exist - read my lips... 41Kb
+873 Inmarsat - Not Logged On 45Kb
+91 India - Dalek 'Does Not Exist' 66Kb
+91 India - Squeaky Lady 'Please Check' 68Kb
+91 India Mobile - Piano Recital 141Kb
+91 India - 'Check the Number You Have Dialled' 73Kb
+91 India - Orange Cellular Announcement - sexy! 52Kb
+91 India Mobile - It Won't Ring 92Kb
+91 India Mobile - It's Switched Off 99Kb
+91 India Mobile - Try After Sometime 103Kb
+91 India - Equipment Connecting then Fax 88Kb
+92 Pakistan International Gateway - Subscriber Busy 107Kb
+92 Pakistan - Changed Number 101Kb
+977 Nepal - call to a fax 217Kb
+unknown Beep Beep 52Kb
+unknown Iridium Satellite - Test Number 51Kb
+unknown Iridium Satellite - Subscriber Blocked 19Kb
+unknown Sorry - Lines Are Busy - Please Try Later 31Kb

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