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From: sullivan@aqdata.uucp (Michael T. Sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: FCC doing it again...
Message-ID: <1989Nov30.233030.16215@aqdata.uucp>
Date: 30 Nov 89 23:30:30 GMT
References: <253@zircon.UUCP>
Followup-To: comp.misc
Organization: aQdata, Inc.  Western Region -- San Dimas, CA
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Ahh, paranoia...

From article <253@zircon.UUCP>, by davidb@Pacer.UUCP (David Barts):
> 
> I have a hard time accepting anything the phone company tells me
> about costs and billing policy.

What "phone company"?  There is no longer a big monolithic "phone
company", remember?

> Fortunately, you can fight back.  If you are being charged more for a
> tone line, ask for a pulse line.  SURPRISE!  Unless you have an old
> pulse phone exchange, you still can use tone on the `pulse' line - the
> pulse-to-tone converter lets the DTMF tones through to the exchange.

Sorry.  I've tried using tone on a "new" pulse line and tone just doesn't
get through.
-- 
Michael Sullivan          uunet!jarthur.uucp!aqdata!sullivan
aQdata, Inc.              aqdata!sullivan@jarthur.claremont.edu
San Dimas, CA