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From: eric@egsner.cirr.com (Eric Schnoebelen)
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Subject: Re: Dial Pulse Month in TX
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Date: 22 Dec 89 17:52:30 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 598, message 7 of 9

In article <2344@accuvax.nwu.edu> it is written:

- The following is reprinted from the FidoNet Consulting echo.
- ===========================================================================
-  From:   Jim Westbrook
-  To:     All Modem Users
-  Subj:   International Pulse Dial Month
- 
-     12-14-89       JANUARY IS INTERNATIONAL PULSE DIAL MONTH!
- 
-     One of the peripheral expenses accompanying such a change would be
-     an increase in the cost of optional services.  In the instance of
-     tone dialing, the differential is approximately ten-fold (from
-     approx.  50 cents/month to approx.  $5/month).  Over the course of a
-     year, discontinuing tone dial would offset approximately two months
-     of the basic non-residential service.  This makes it worthwhile to
-     determine the impact on BBS operations if pulse dialing were adopted
-     as "normal operations" for both BBS's and users.

        I don't see what the big deal is. I have never had or used
tone dial services on egsner or my voice lines.  (I rather refuse to
pay for some thing, such as touch tone service, that doesn't cost the
phone company, and that I don't use.)

        Egsner communicates just fine with it's neighbors in Dallas/Ft
Worth using pulse dialing.  I have never had a dialing problem, and
the slight delay caused by pulse dialing is hardly noticeable.

        As a side note: When I ordered service for my new home, I
ordered two lines.  The service rep asked if I wanted tone service to
which I replied no.  They then asked (paraphrased) "Doesn't the
computer, since that is what you are planning to use on your second
line, need tone service to dial?", to which I replied (again,
paraphrased) "no, I have never used tone on any of my modems" I could
hear the disbelief over the phone..


Eric Schnoebelen	eric@egsner.cirr.com		schnoebe@convex.com
			"/bin/sh: Bourne in the USA"