Alternate party diversion is an optional feature of telephone services, where a call may be routed to a different number based on time-out and precedence schemes set up by the customer. Basic principle A traditional landline telephone system also known as "plain old telephone service" (POTS, commonly handles both signaling and audio information A telephone number or phone number is a sequence of numbers used to call from one Telephone line to another in a Telephone network. Time Out is a Publishing company based in London, England. The company's best known product is the Time Out weekly listings Magazine
Technical definition
Alternate party: In multilevel precedence and preemption, the call receiver, i. Multilevel precedence and preemption (MLPP In military communications, a Priority scheme (a for assigning one of several Precedence levels to specific e. the destination user, to which a precedence call will be diverted. In an Information transfer transaction the destination user is the user that receives Information from the source i Diversion will occur when the response timer expires, when the call receiver is busy on a call of equal or higher precedence, or when the call receiver is busy with access resources that are non-preemptable. In Technology, response time is the Time a System or Functional unit takes to react to a given Input. Alternate party diversion is an optional terminating feature that is subscribed to by the call receiver. Thus, the alternate party is specified by the call receiver at the time of subscription. For other uses see Time (disambiguation Time is a component of a measuring system used to sequence events to compare the durations of
Source: From Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188
Federal Standard 1037C, entitled Telecommunications Glossary of Telecommunication Terms is a United States Federal Standard issued by the General Services Administration MIL-STD-188 is a series of US military standards relating to Telecommunications Purpose Faced with “past technical deficiencies in telecommunications