🚀 go-pugleaf

In the referenced article aem@tomokato.analog.com (Andrew E. Marold) writes:
<We don't pay for touch tone service at my house, but have aftermarket
<phones capable of generating touch tones, that work fine.

	On many switches they can and will disable Touch Tone, if you
arn't paying for it.

<Charging for tone service is such a ripoff.  I can't believe that it
>would cost them more to supply the service.  Wouldn't eliminating
<pulse dial altogether result in better efficiency/greater savings for
>all ?

	Blame the DPU not the NET.  Supporting rotary dialing cost
more than Touch Tone (tho probably nominally so), since on a modern
switch you have to decode the pulses into tones anyway.  But the DPU
won't allow NET to change more for pulse dial service, only to change
for touch tone to subsidize pulse service.  The idea being that poor
people are more likely to have rotary phones.


	Disclaimer:  I think NET is the one of the biggest bunches of
bozos ever collected.  But you can blame them for everything.

->Spike