Pulse to tone convertors

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On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 10:32:23PM -0500, Robert J. Brown wrote:
> >>>>> "Gert" == Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de> writes:

>     Gert> USA is also quite behind in rural areas...
> 
> Actually, this is pretty stupid.  It is a legal thing, not a technical
> thing.  When the phone company (was only one back then) first
> introduced tone dialing, it was a "feature", and so it cost extra.
> Nowdays, the whole phone system operates with tone dialing, but
> because it was tarriffed back in the early 60's as an extra cost item,
> it is still an extra cost item, so some people say, "Why do I need to
> pay extra for that?", so they refuse to pay the extra couple of
> dollars per month for tone dialing.  This actually costs the phone

FYI, it's not there all over.  Pacific Bell finally pulled their head out,
but then I don't think the Silicon Valley consitutes one of those "rural
areas". :)

Randy