selective call rejection

selective call rejection definition - telecom
Also known as call block and selective call block. A CLASS service feature of the public switched telephone network (PSTN). Selective call rejection screens incoming calls against a user-defined list of acceptable telephone numbers. Calls from those numbers are diverted to a recorded message. Calls from all other numbers ring through, as usual. See also call block, CLASS, and PSTN.

Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary Copyright © 2008 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
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