Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: henry@garp.mit.edu (Henry Mensch) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Touch-Tone service in Australia Message-ID: Date: 16 Oct 89 09:36:16 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: henry@garp.mit.edu Lines: 13 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 456, message 3 of 7 Mr. Kendall states in his recent item that there is no touch-tone service in Australia; I must disagree. I lived on Australia's Gold Coast from January until June of this year, and the only phones I saw there which were *not* touch-tone were coin-operated payphones. In Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, I found that touch-tone service was non-existent; it did seem to be an up-and-coming thing for many regions, though. From Mr. Kendall's network address, I see he is in Tasmania, which may be regarded as something of an outpost (with respect to new features) as far as Telecom Australia is concerned. # Henry Mensch / / E40-379 MIT, Cambridge, MA # / /