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From: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: touchtone dialing always works
Message-ID: <4842@reed.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 13-Dec-86 05:03:53 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec 13 05:03:53 1986
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In article <750@sdcc12.ucsd.EDU> wa371@sdcc12.ucsd.EDU (Bernd Riechelmann) writes:
>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 
>UUCP: ...!sdcsvax!sdcc12!wa371, Internet: wa371%sdcc12@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu


I too noticed this about 3 years ago.  I haven't tried it since, and
besides, I can afford the $.55 a month :-)

anyway, what else I noticed was that my touchtone(tm) pricess(tm) didn't
ring...

Now, for modems, this is all fine and dandy, but when you only have one
touchtone phone. . .


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