Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request Date: 20 Mar 91 23:54:56 GMT From: "Robert L. Oliver" Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: IBT Requires TouchTone Charge Message-ID: Organization: Rabbit Software Corp. Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 223, Message 6 of 9 Lines: 30 motcid!void!dunne@uunet.uu.net (Jim E. Dunne) writes: > [Moderator's Note: Illinois Bell gives *70 for free. PAT] (regarding Call Waiting disabling) > Well, as of this month, Illinois Bell is asking me to pay for the > TouchTone service I had been getting for free. > [text deleted] > Oh well, $0.73/month (plus taxes of course!) isn't > too bad for the ability to dial with my computer and the like. At > least they included a "Business Reply Mail" envelope... I think most Hayes compatible modems will support pulse dialing. And can even switch to tone later for entering calling card numbers. I do this all the time. I don't pay for TouchTone service, but my modem pulse dials the number then tone dials the calling card number. And my phones are either tone/pulse switchable or BOTH tone and pulse (I have a 2500 deskset I modified with a rotary dial sitting next to it and wires running into the case; looks like something out of the movie Brazil!). Robert Oliver Rabbit Software Corp. 215 993-1152 7 Great Valley Parkway East Malvern, PA 19355 robert@hutch.Rabbit.COM ...!uunet!cbmvax!hutch!robert