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Only some phone systems in the western part of the US had far-end supervision, so far as I am aware. (This is why movies and TV shows from in and around Hollywood show conversations where the caller hangs up and the callee hears a dial-tone. The phone systems in most of California had only far-end supervision. Tom Scott has a good video on this[0].)

Most of the US uses either near-end, where the recipient hanging up will end the call, or both-end supervision, on POTS/landline systems.

0 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUIiUXvnkUQ - This video was filmed at the excellent Museum of Telecommunications in Seattle, located in a CenturyLink switching office. When travel is available again, I encourage all phone geeks to come here and check it out.




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