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Article #19300Re: phone dialing
From: Sean Kamath
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 1988 18:04
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 1988 18:04
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In article <131500002@occrsh.ATT.COM> rjd@occrsh.ATT.COM writes:
>
> The only
>reason it costs more is because the phone company wants to charge more.
>The equipment is newer than the old pulse-dialing decoding, so perhaps they
>are trying to re-coup the upgrade investment, but the equipment to decode
>touch-tone is actually cheaper, I hear, than the pulse-dialing decoding
>equipment.
>
>Randy
Not any more. We got a note on our phone bill about seven months ago saying
they were removing the whopping $.55 a month charge for touch-tone (tm)
because the FCC decided they couldn't charge more for it. I almost couldn't
believe it when I saw it...The FCC trying to save *me* money?
Ha.
Sean Kamath
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!littlei!reed!kamath From: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: phone dialing Message-ID: <9598@reed.UUCP> Date: 17 Jun 88 18:04:43 GMT References: <361@tiger.oxy.edu> <131500002@occrsh.ATT.COM> Reply-To: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath) Organization: Reed College, Portland OR Lines: 26