FCC doing it again...

Michael T. Sullivan sullivan at aqdata.uucp
Fri Dec 1 10:30:30 AEST 1989


Ahh, paranoia...

>From article <253 at zircon.UUCP>, by davidb at Pacer.UUCP (David Barts):
> 
> I have a hard time accepting anything the phone company tells me
> about costs and billing policy.

What "phone company"?  There is no longer a big monolithic "phone
company", remember?

> Fortunately, you can fight back.  If you are being charged more for a
> tone line, ask for a pulse line.  SURPRISE!  Unless you have an old
> pulse phone exchange, you still can use tone on the `pulse' line - the
> pulse-to-tone converter lets the DTMF tones through to the exchange.

Sorry.  I've tried using tone on a "new" pulse line and tone just doesn't
get through.
-- 
Michael Sullivan          uunet!jarthur.uucp!aqdata!sullivan
aQdata, Inc.              aqdata!sullivan at jarthur.claremont.edu
San Dimas, CA



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