Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!vector!nobody From: mcvax!santra.hut.fi!news@uunet.UU.NET Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Touch-Tone around the world Message-ID: Date: 23 Dec 88 01:24:28 GMT Sender: chip@vector.UUCP Lines: 27 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 208, message 4 In Finland, DTMF is pretty common. For example, in Jyvaskyla where I live (a small city of around 70k inhabitants) the local telco automatically provides DTMF for all new numbers (they get connected to their digital exchange) and old numbers that use the older exchange can still upgrade for DTMF service. The payphones are almost all DTMF, and the newer models also include a cute little LCD display showing your remaining time on your coin. The local telco provides also many extra-pay services like dual- conversation lines, caller alerting etc. When I've visited Sweden and Denmark, I haven't seen rotary diallers since ...er, I think it was in 1980 in Sweden. But anyway, it's the hotels and public places that get the DTMF's first, then the private subscribers. As a side show, I've also had problems on long-distance connections in Finland, and they sound a lot like the slippage problems that were described here. When I call Helsinki from Jyvaskyla, I keep getting these {'s almost every five seconds ! The problem is, there are three (!) companies involved in the mess: the local telco for Jyvaskyla area, the PTT (as the long-distance carrier) and the Helsinki local telco. The problem would seem to in the PTT/Helsinki telco connection. A lot on it I can do to it from here... Otto J. Makela (with poetic license to kill), University of Jyvaskyla InterNet: makela_otto_@jylk.jyu.fi, BitNet: MAKELA_OTTO_@FINJYU.BITNET BBS: +358 41 211 562 (V.22bis/V.22/V.21, 24h/d) Voice phone: +358 41 613 847 Mail: Kauppakatu 1 B 18, SF-40100 Jyvaskyla, Finland, EUROPE