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From: drears@pica.army.mil (Dennis G. Rears (FSAC))
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Questions About New Service Being Installed
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Date: 23 Mar 91 12:00:20 GMT
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   I am moving and got some questions about my new telephone service.
I will be getting two lines with circular hunting (circular just in
case I get more lines installed).  They are letting me have one line
with touch tone and the other line without.  Am I correct in assuming
that touch tone only applies to dialing and not the sending of the
tones after the connection is made?  All of may phones are switchable
to either touch tone and pulse.

   I found out my new service will be serviced by a 1ESS switch.  Can
anybody explain the difference between that and a 5ESS switch?  I
would really appreciate it if somebody could detail what each switch
capability is.

  I agreed to have it billed on one number.  The installation is $42 &
$16 for the second line, for a total of $58.  If I wanted two billing
numbers it would have cost $42 and $42.  That seems unreasonable to me.
($42 seems unreasonable to me for one line when you consider it is a
$15 hookup charge for electric and $14 for gas).


Dennis