🚀 go-pugleaf

I don't remember the details, and I don't want to try to look them up,
but one of the reasons there is a charge is tariffs. Whether or not it
costs the phone company extra to provide the service, if they cannot
offer it to all their customers at the same time, they need to tariff
it as an extra cost item. When they first offered Touch-Tone, it was
costing them extra to provide the equipment for it, especially if they
had to retrofit existing step-by-step or crossbar offices for it.
The extra charge will be with around in individual service areas at
least until the service can be offered to all subscribers using the
equipment already in place.

By the same reasoning, the day may come when pulse dialing is an extra
cost service.
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