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From: greg@gagme.uucp (Gregory Gulik)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: FCC doing it again...
Message-ID: <26@gagme.uucp>
Date: 8 Dec 89 16:43:22 GMT
References: <1989Nov28.011514.4193@virtech.uucp> <246@cfa.HARVARD.EDU> <1146@cirrusl.UUCP> <255@zircon.UUCP>
Reply-To: greg@gagme.UUCP (Gregory Gulik)
Organization: GAGME - Public Access UNIX of Niles, Illinois, USA
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In article <255@zircon.UUCP> davidb@Pacer.UUCP (David Barts) writes:
>Let's move this thread out out comp.unix.wizards.  Comp.misc may not
>be the best place, but there's no alt.phone-phlames group :-).

Sure, no problem.

>My thoughts exactly.  So even if I'd be living in a place where they
>filter out the DTMF during the dialing stage, I'd still order a pulse
>line.  I'd get a nice warm feeling from paying less for a line that
>costs the phone company more.
>
>... Until everybody starts doing this and then the phone co. would
>RAISE rates on pulse lines so they'd be more than DTMF. :-(

Well, sounds like a good idea, but a few year ago when my family lived in an
area serviced by Illinois Bell and we bought our first touch tone phone,
we plugged it in and were pleasantly surprised that it worked without
having to pay the touch tone service.  Well, some time went by and nobody
got around to informing the phone company that there is a touch tone
phone using the line now, and everything was peachy.  Well, a couple weeks
later, somebody from the phone company called and informed us that
they will be adding the touch tone service fee to our bill from now
on since they have detected the use of a touch tone phone on that
line.

Yep, we got busted!

-greg


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