Cause 18 no user responding is used when the called party does not respond to call establishment within the allotted time, while cause 19 no answer from user is used when the called party was alerted and did not answer, so the pair separates a device that never signalled from a device that rang.

Checked 2026-09-15

This cause is used when the called party has been alerted but does not respond with a connect indication within a prescribed period of time.
Vendor
ITU-T
Product
ITU-T Recommendation Q.850
Subsystem
Cause and location
Deployment
not restricted
Region
not restricted
Release range
edition 10/2018
Checked
2026-09-15

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APA

WarmTransfer. (2026, September 15). ITU-T Q.850 call clearing cause values: source note q850-cause-19-differs-from-18-by-alerting. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/q850-cause-19-differs-from-18-by-alerting

BibTeX

@misc{warmtransfer-claim-q850-cause-19-differs-from-18-by-alerting,
  title  = {ITU-T Q.850 call clearing cause values: source note q850-cause-19-differs-from-18-by-alerting},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/q850-cause-19-differs-from-18-by-alerting},
  note   = {Source note q850-cause-19-differs-from-18-by-alerting, checked 2026-09-15}
}

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