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From: gtisqr!toddi@cs.washington.edu (Todd Inch)
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Subject: Re: 215 Area Code Loses "1" per Newspaper 'Reporter'
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Date: 5 Jan 91 09:56:07 GMT
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In article <15649@accuvax.nwu.edu> PAT writes that the # button is often 
the telephone equivalent of a "return key", and:

>There is no
>reason people couldn't be trained to stick it on the end of all
>dialing as a signal they are finished. Then, *any combination* could
>be a local number, no?    PAT]

Sounds good, but this couldn't happen until tone dialing becomes
mandatory and networks are no longer compelled to support pulse
dialing.  Anybody heard when that might happen?  I'm amazed that pulse
is still around - is support enforced by tariff?

(Remember: Do your kids know how to dial a rotary phone for
emergencies?)


Todd Inch, System Manager, Global Technology, Mukilteo WA  (206) 742-9111
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