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From: CRW@icf.hrb.com (Craig R. Watkins)
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Subject: Re: Telco "Customer Service" (Really DTMF to Pulse)
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Date: 25 Oct 90 15:05:42 GMT
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In article <13940@accuvax.nwu.edu>, oberman@rogue.llnl.gov writes:

> What Mountain Bell (now USWest) did was put DTMF receivers on the
> input to the switch which output pulses. So I entered the tones and
> could hear the pulses being generated in the background. And, no, it
> was not a pushbutton phone generating pulses. It was a phone that can
> so either with the switch set to tone position. I could clearly hear
> the DTMF.

I *think* this is what was happening to me (sometimes) at the North
Rim of the Grand Canyon in September.  It made it really difficult
(impossible) to DISA and/or voice mail.  I think it might have worked
once, but I couldn't figure out any possible timeouts, etc to repeat
my success.


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