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From: chris@cooper.UUCP (Chris Lent )
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: touchtone dialing always works
Message-ID: <722@cooper.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 18-Dec-86 00:37:14 EST
Article-I.D.: cooper.722
Posted: Thu Dec 18 00:37:14 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 18-Dec-86 21:49:07 EST
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Organization: The Cooper Union (NY, NY)
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Summary: NYTel gets nastier and what 958 did

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.
 >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.


 New York Telephone sent out a letter recently (this fall) to
 customers saying "If you use Touchtone (R) service without paying
 for it we're going to charge you, as of XX/XX/86". I wasn't about to
 ask but it doesn't seem to affect my use of telephone credit cards
 from pulse dialed phone.  That is if I dial 0 (area) local-number with pulse,
 eventually I get the "go-ahead" tone, switch to tone and dial the credit
 card number the call goes through fine. This also shows up on the
 bill as a direct-dialed credit card call (saving ~30 cents).

 Here's a bit of phone trivia that works in some places.  Dial
 958 and many times you get a generated voice telling you the number
 you are DIALING from.

 Enjoy
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Chris Lent 	ihnp4!allegra!phri!cooper!chris