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From: david@ukma.ms.uky.csnet (David Herron, NPR Lover)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: touchtone dialing always works
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Date: Sat, 20-Dec-86 10:48:46 EST
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In GTE land (Lexington, KY) touchtone doesn't work on a non-touchtone
line.  I have a Prometheus Pro-modem here, when it dials a phone number
it first tries to do the first digit as touchtone, looks to see
if the carrier tone went away, and since it didn't do the dial
phone stuff.  Oh, I currently live in an older neighborhood (read
"student ghetto"), but last year when I was living in a more modern
neightborhood I was getting the same results.

I too see no reason to have to pay extra so I can have touchtone.
All it will gain me is slightly faster dialing.  (Well, there are 
a few fancy features now-adays, hold, call-forwarding, etc, but
I'm not interested in them -- ESPECIALLY the one that announces
an incoming caller with that silly beep tone!)
-- 
David Herron,  cbosgd!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET, david@ms.uky.csnet
(I'm also "postmaster", "news", "netnews", "uucp", "mmdf", and ...)

"What have I got in my pocketses?" -- I never heard such a stupid damn riddle!