🚀 go-pugleaf

I, too, got a letter from Pacific Bell saying their equipment noticed that
I was using a tone phone without paying for tone dialing.  They by default
would start charging for it, but they gave me a number to call.  I told the
lady I returned that phone, so she said they would fix my line so it
wouldn't accept tones.

It still accepts tones, but I don't tone dial that much, anymore, so they
won't hastle me.  Meanwhile, I gave my parents back east a tone phone which
DOESN'T work for them, so I had to get them a pulse model.  Since their
exchange went through some big changes a short time back, I have to think
they have new equipment.  So there must be a way to ignore tones from
people who don't pay the surcharge.

I expect someday they will announce that it's just as much trouble to
accept pulses as tones, so they will want to hit everybody for the surcharge.