The Idea of the Telephone Hold Programme

The idea of being put on hold in those earliest days of telephone communication, the switchboard. You just hit some sort of button that puts the collar's line on a source of programm material,. often music, but it could really be anything. The application has a key line here: In any event, listening to a completely unresponsive instrument is tedious. And calls are often abandoned altogether or remade, which leads to annoyance and waste of time and money.