that is not quiet what I was thinking of. What you suggested is that I have my phone pole the tower for incoming calls. My phone does that fine. But, the phone actually has a setting in the registry that tells it how long before it plays your ring tone once it has received notification that a call has come through. The phone already knows there is a call but it waits a default of 3 seconds before it plays the ring tone. I don't want it to wait. (I also have verizon so the dialing up to sprint idea wouldn't work