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From: zippy@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Patrick Tufts)
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Subject: Re: What's the Deal With NET and Directory Listings?
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In article <14116@accuvax.nwu.edu> gillett@ceomax.enet.dec.com
(Christopher Gillett) writes:

>One last thing, it is SOP amongst all the different telcos to charge
>*more* every month for touchtone service than for rotary dial?  I
>thought it worked the other way around.

Why, Touchtone is a _feature_! :-) That's why the TelCos I've dealt
with - SNET and NYNEX - charge for it.

Seriously, you'd think they'd charge more for the pulse system, if
only because it ties the line up longer.


Pat