Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pyrdc!netsys!vector!nobody From: ontenv!soley@vector.uucp (Norman S. Soley) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Sending digits on ISDN Message-ID: Date: 15 Nov 88 05:35:31 GMT Sender: chip@vector.UUCP Lines: 18 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@bu-cs.bu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 8, issue 181, message 2 In article , ron@ron.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) writes: > I wouldn't go so far as to say they are obsolete. Since ISDN > is still in the nebulous phase, TouchTone service is what we have. > Even my cellular car phone, which doesn't use TouchTones for dialing > either, generates tones when I push the buttons so I can play with > voice mailboxes and such. Does your phone make them or are they generated by cellular dialer to DTMF converted somwhere at the interface between the celular net and the regular phone system? I know that's what gets done in some digital PBX's for exactly the same reasons you mention. -- Norman Soley - Data Communications Analyst - Ontario Ministry of the Environment UUCP: uunet!attcan!lsuc!ncrcan!ontenv!soley VOICE: +1 416 323 2623 OR: soley@ontenv.UUCP " Stay smart, go cool, be happy, it's the only way to get what you want"