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