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From: DREUBEN@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Douglas Scott Reuben)
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Subject: Re: Unbreakable Dialtone
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I've had that problem on my 5XBar as well. All customers get tone,
whether they pay or not. I've never known the telco to go after people
or turn off tone on this exchange even if they don't pay for it.

Anyhow, I normally don't have trouble dialing with Touch Tone, but
once in a while, especially after I just hung up on another call, when
I try to dial with tone, I can't seem to GENERATE the tones.

For example, it seems like at times (maybe 5% all calls), the exchange
reverses polarity, and all my old "Bell System" phones won't generate
a tone.  If, however, I pick up a Panasonic phone (at the same time),
the Panasonic has no trouble generating the tone, and the exchange
responds by breaking the dial tone.

I'm not sure if this was the nature of the problem that was posted. It
may have been that the phone COULD generate tones, but that the
exchange just didn't respond, which would not be the same thing as the
problem that I have described.


Doug

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