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From: sje!tom@pdx.mentor.com (Tom Ace @ PCB x2021)
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Subject: Another Cool Thing About GTE
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Date: 29 Sep 89 23:15:07 GMT
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X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 421, message 4 of 8

GTE used to install modular jacks wired so that the polarity would be
the opposite of what was standard in Bell areas.  (I noticed this in
several instances, all residential service jacks in California in the
early 1980s.  I have no idea what they're doing nowadays.)

A friend once moved from a Bell area to a GTE area and figured that
his '70s-vintage WE touch-tone phone had gotten damaged in the move,
because it wouldn't make tones any more.  (I saw that he was dialing
by making pulses with his finger on the switchhook.)  I told him what
the story was and swapped tip and ring in the jack for him.

Tom Ace
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