CTU ringtone for iPhone

I remember hearing "the ctu ringtone" on AT&T Merlin systems in the late 80's, early 90's. My brand new Avaya IP phone has the same ringtone set (because, as someone else pointed out, AT&T -> Lucent -> Avaya).

What do you think the odds are that Jack Bauer will have an iPhone in the next season? Traditionally Sprint has had cell phone product placement but Apple's had some Mac product placement too...

in germany, the ctu ringtone is quite popular - when you hear it in public, there's always a couple of hands fumbling for their phone - including me. i've never felt like using real music as ringtone when an actually "ringing" sound seems so more appropriate. i mean, it's a phone. come on.

movies and tv are a good source for signature sounds, specifically sci-fi stuff. the five notes sequence from "close encounter of the 3rd kind" makes one nasty alarm.

The older Norstar Meridian phone systems from Nortel also had this ring (or a very close approximation).

hahaha on the first day on my new job in the fall my phone rang with the 24 ring and i almost peed from laughing. its the default cisco ip phone ringer. my office sounds like ctu all day

I really don't understand how this is considered news. I have had this ringtone for months just by downloading the CTU ringtone mp3 from some 24 fan site, changing it to an ACC in iTunes, then renaming the file extension to .m4r. This was all on, engadget (which is also Webblog Inc. site just like TUAW) months ago... no hacking involved, just tricking iTunes.

link: http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/itunes-7-4-1-ringtones-re-rename-workaround-discovered/

This is not a standard Cisco ringtone. I work with these phone and they don't come with that ringtone, if you want it on them, you have to convert it and upload, much the same way with the iphone. It is a very old Merlin ringtone.

@7 -- The tones are clearly recognizable as from an AT&T Merlin. If you don't believe me, also see #12 and #15 here:

http://discussion.treocentral.com/showpost.php?p=659870

Yeah, I found a copy of the ringtone somewhere online a while ago and made it for the original software on the iphone, again with itoner later, and now with garage band, so fun when people recognize it.

Actually, my server is fine. My T1 is not. Sorry about that, but enjoy the ringtone....