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additional citations for verification. (February 2013) A missed
call is a telephone call that is not answered by its intended
recipient prior to the termination of ringing on the recipient's
end. The ringing may be terminated by the caller simply by
hanging up the receiver of a landline phone, or pressing the
appropriate button on a mobile phone, or if the answering
machine or voicemail picks up on the recipient's end. The term
"missed call" is only displayed prominently on mobile phones. It
is commonly used as a way of communicating or conveying messages
for free. To "miss call", in the Philippine-adapted form miskol,
was declared the Word of the Year in 2007 at a language
convention held in the University of the Philippines Diliman. In
Oman, there is a pop song based on missed calls. Equivalents in
other places are to drop call in the US, to beep in Africa, and
to prank in England and Au