Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: munnari!cit5.cit.oz.au!jwb@uunet.uu.net (Jim Breen) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Touch-Tone Service in Australia Message-ID: Date: 18 Oct 89 23:32:38 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Chisholm Institute of Technology, Melb., Australia Lines: 27 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 461, message 9 of 10 In article , henry@garp.mit.edu (Henry Mensch) quotes earlier correspondent: > 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. ............... You can't have looked too hard. Most exchanges (CO's) in the larger cities have had DTMF capability for several years. It is there for the asking, however most telephone customers are prepared to go on using their good old rotary-dial telephones. Part of this is due to the Australian regulatory system. Telecom Australia, the PTT, is the sole provider of exchange lines and has the right to provide , as part of the package, the first 'phone in each site. For most people, getting the touch-phone service means either buying a new phone, or getting Telecom to change over (for a fee), plus paying Telecom to change the line from Decadic to DTMF. Small wonder most people stay with rotary dialling. My Institute has a modern ISDN-compatible PABX network. All our handsets, and all our exchange lines, are DTMF. _______ Jim Breen (jwb@cit5.cit.oz) Department of Robotics & /o\----\\ \O Digital Technology. Chisholm Inst. of Technology /RDT\ /|\ \/| -:O____/ PO Box 197 Caulfield East 3145 O-----O _/_\ /\ /\ (p) 03-573 2552 (fax) 572 1298