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From: henry@GARP.MIT.EDU (Henry Mensch)
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Subject: Touch-Tone around the world
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   From: covert%covert.DEC@decwrl.dec.com (John R. Covert)
   Date: 11 Dec 88 10:46

   >Also, does anybody know if the tone-dial equipment there [U.K. and Europe]
   >uses the same tone-pairs as we do here?

   Yes.  It is CCITT standard Q.31.

   ...

   DTMF is much more common in France -- there are even DTMF payphones in a few
   rare places.

I've used DTMF phones in the Telehouse on Raadhuistraat in Amsterdam,
but I noted that there were *none* on the streets, and none installed
in the places i visited in the Netherlands.

The Federal Republic of Germany and West Berlin seem devoid of
touch-tone phones entirely!

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