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Ringing once: squillo or pranking
This is a favorite story, posted by Howard Rheingold in Smart Mobs last
year, reporting on an article published in The Age, about Italian students
who have developed an entire communications system based on not answering
their cell phone when it rings. "They have called their development "the
squillo". A squillo is a one-ring mobile phone call - squillare means "to
ring" in Italian. The receiving phone buzzes for one to two seconds and
then stops. It notes who the call is from, that is all. A squillo is not
meant to be answered; it is meant to be noticed".
In the ON/OFF documentary on the social aspects of the use of
communication technologies in a variety of cultural settings, the single
ring practice came up in one of the English families filmed by the crew in
London, but with a very different meaning. Unlike the Italians who ring
once to flirt or convey the message "I'm thinking about you." UK Teenagers
ring once to save money. In what they call "pranking", they dial a number
and hang up after the first ring, so their number appears on the cell
screen of the recipient, who then calls them back at his expense