The present invention relates to a method of managing a trunk, and querying and
ascertaining a ring-back sound to provide the ring-back sound in a subscriber-based
ring-back sound service. In the trunk management method, a terminating mobile switching
center (32) requests the intelligent peripheral (50) to release a
trunk call when the terminating mobile switching center recognizes the answer of
the terminating subscriber or when a first predetermined period of time has elapsed
from a time when it is recognized that a corresponding ring-back sound is provided
to the originator. Further, the intelligent peripheral (50) requests the
terminating mobile switching center (32) to release the trunk call when
a second predetermined period of time has elapsed from a time when the ring-back
sound is provided.