Wakes from sleep when phone rings

Today I had the Apple USB modem connected to my MBP but it was not connected to the internet and the MBP was in sleep mode opened. When my phone rang, the MBP woke from sleep. I didn't know the modem could do that. Is there a setting I can change to stop it from doing that (without having to disconnect the modem itself)?

I have a G5 with internal modem and recently my Mac has been waking from Sleep each time the phone rings. I don't have the system preferences set to do that (and I checked to be sure). I think it may just be since the last OSX update 10.5.7.

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