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From: markz@ssc.UUCP (Mark Zenier)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: phone dialing
Summary: Requirement?
Message-ID: <1277@ssc.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jun 88 18:36:48 GMT
References: <361@tiger.oxy.edu> <3310002@wdl1.UUCP> <2565@kitty.UUCP> <531@ablnc.ATT.COM>
Organization: SSC, Inc., Seattle, WA
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In article <531@ablnc.ATT.COM>, maxwell@ablnc.ATT.COM (Robert Maxwell) writes:
> ... 
> By the same reasoning, the day may come when pulse dialing is an extra
> cost service.

I heard a rumor that it is a legal requirement that you can get the operator
on a phone with no dial by tapping the hookswitch 10 times.  That would
require TPC to provide pulse dialing.  Is this so?


Mark Zenier		Holder of the Cliff Claven chair at the school of
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