Re: [OM] iPhone et al

[Ken Norton]

> They still have the same rotary phone on the wall that they had when I was a 
> kid.

Some of those old phones still sound gobs better than anything available today.

All telephone companies in the USA are required to be able to support
rotary phones. Of course, it is all digitally "listened to" as the old
mechanical switches are long since gone. The funny thing is that it
costs money to support the rotary technology, but most phone companies
charge extra for touch-tone support. (You either have it listed
directly on the bill as a line-item or it is buried in the tarriff
rate, but the fact is almost everybody pays as much as $5 per month
for the priveledge of using touch-tone.

I believe that approximately 15% of all households are still set to
rotary service.

AG
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