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lorinblo@fn1.freenet.edmonton.ab.ca wrote:

: Please correct me if I am wrong, but I am under the impression that it 
: costs more to service dial phones than touch tone phones.

You are not completely right.  It is theoretically cheaper to establish
telephone connections via touch tone phones.  There is an extra cost to
the telephone companies to establish connections for dial pulse phones,
because the dial pulses have to be translated to be accepted by the 
switching machines.  The costs have nothing to do with the servicing of the
respective types of phone sets.

: If this is 
: true, why don't the phone companies just say that as fo date XX/XX/XX, 
: they will no longer provide service for dial phones and will only provide 
: service for touch tone phones.  Wouldn't this save them a little money?

No, it wouldn't save them any money.  They would lose the revenues that they
presently earn by offering touch tone service as a special option. 
By rights, dial pulse service should be offered as a special option. 
Touch tone service is the standard option in exchanges that have touch tone
capability and should not be offered at an extra cost.
 
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Walter H. Schneider          Bruderheim, Alberta, Canada