Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: munnari!diemen.cc.utas.oz.au!kendall@uunet.uu.net (kendall) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Touch-Tone Service in Australia Message-ID: Date: 17 Oct 89 19:29:40 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: kendall@diemen.utas.oz.au (Dr. Jon D. Kendall) Organization: University of Tasmania Lines: 20 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 460, message 6 of 8 I was surprised to hear from Mr. Mensch in his recent article that the Gold Coast has touch-tone service. A quick ring to one of my friends in Telecom-Australia revealed that I was quite mistaken. Indeed, Telecom is gradually phasing in touch-tone service and hopes to have all major urban areas covered by 1991 or so. Even here in Hobart, Tasmania the service is available for a few exchanges. On the Gold Coast up in Queensland where a lot of new development is taking place, it is relatively easy to build new exchanges with the touch-tone capability. It is much more costly to replace exchanges as will be done here. Nevertheless I am quite content to wait for the service, preferring to live in a much more pleasant climate and less corrupt (according to the newspapers) environment than Queensland. Here in Tasmania we move through life at a sure and steady pace. Don't take this last part too seriously -- just a bit of interstate rivalry, ha, ha. In any case I have touch-tone service as does almost any organization here with its own PABX. The University of Tasmania has an ASB 900 SPC PABX which has been adequate for our needs.