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by desas 958 days ago
It's a landline thing. It used to be the case on analogue lines in the UK that the caller controlled the connection (probably because they were the ones being billed for it and the recipients phone couldn't communicate it's time to stop the bill).

That "feature" was copied into the digital world. Except now there's a very short timeout where after the recipient hangs up, the connection is terminated.