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From: wa371@sdcc12.ucsd.EDU (Bernd Riechelmann)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: touchtone dialing always works
Message-ID: <750@sdcc12.ucsd.EDU>
Date: Thu, 11-Dec-86 22:55:00 EST
Article-I.D.: sdcc12.750
Posted: Thu Dec 11 22:55:00 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 15-Dec-86 06:04:21 EST
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Organization: Electronic Cottage, San Diego
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Whenever I order telephone service installed, the phone company asks
if I want to have Touchtone service (for an extra charge.)
I have learned to politely refuse this feature , because Touchtone always
works, whether ordered or not.
Before the breakup of the Bell System I once received a polite letter
from their San Francisco office, asking me to request Touchtone.
They had noticed that I was using it.  I ignored the letter, and
never heard from them again.
Has anyone else made this observation?
To be fair, the extra charge should apply to pulse dialing instead, because
it is much slower, tying up their dialing equipment for a longer time.
Cheers,
Bernard 
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