I finally tired of the privilege of paying for touch-tone service and
what was AT&T's 40-50 year amortization schedules. I do my touch-toning
on VoIP these days.
Chuck Norcutt
On 10/27/2010 6:13 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
>> 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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