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From: mitel!spock!cloutier@uunet.uu.net (Mark Cloutier)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: 16 Buttons -- Not 12?
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Date: 27 Sep 90 15:23:57 GMT
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In article <12659@accuvax.nwu.edu> kentrox!ktxc5!brent@uunet.uu.net
(Brent Capps) writes:

>> An odd thought sprang upon me recently while talking to a friend.  Do
>> telephones actually use sixteen tones rather than just twelve normally
>> available?

These 4*4 phones are more popular in Europe, the application I heard
of was to use the extra four keys as speed dial keys. This was in a PBX
environment.