Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!texsun!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: mark@motown.altair.fr Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Rotary-dial Encoding Message-ID: Date: 1 Aug 89 17:20:02 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 23 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 268, message 11 of 11 euatdt@euas11g.ericsson.se (Torsten Dahlkvist) writes of "Oslo" dialling: > (10-n)-dialling (or is it (10-(n+1))?); The dial works "backwards" and > looks quite funny to the newcomer. I'm not sure if the coding is 1=>10, > 2=>9...0=>1 or 0=>10, 1=>9... 9=>1. . . . > (I have an unverified source saying it's been found somewhere in New > Zealand. Correct?) That is correct; not only "somewhere" but all of New Zealand uses a 10-n pulse code: 9 gives 1 pulse, 8=>2 ... 0=>10. Most emergency numbers end in 999. I believe Australia uses the same system. Now, of course, most new phones use tones, but even here the tone codes are different from those used elsewhere. New Zealand Telecom did this on purpose, of course. When international pressure forced the government to abrogate Telecom's monopoly of telecommunications equipment manufacture, the bureaucrats made sure that few competitors would bother making their phones or modems work with the weird local standard. For this reason, even 300-baud modems still cost the equivalent of over $100 US. ####### Mark James ######### opinions, errors etc are my own ####### ####### mark@bdblues.inria.fr ######### +33 (1) 39 63 53 93 ########