Mike & Mark:
If a local USA telephone company is charging for "tone dialing" I am
willing to bet that is a charge that would not show up if you were a new
customer. Many phone companies have left charges on their billing system
to gain revenue. This often happens to senior citizens.
Many phone companies charge $1 to $4 "wiring insurance". The claim they
make when you phone their billing department is "we charge $38 to show
up and $25 for every quarter hour to fix your premises phone wiring".
However, in our local area you have about 25 independent phone people
who will diagnose senior citizens premise wiring at no charge.
Mark, I bet that "tome dialing charge" is another benefit of your local
monopoly phone company - which would disappear if they are asked about
it :)
John O
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Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 01:08:23 -0500
From: "Mike Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Okay, about the buglist....., another submit. :-)
Many telephone companies that used to charge extra for touch
tone have dropped the charge. It actually is cheaper for them to
have you use tone dialling because it is faster and allows the
switching equipment to handle more calls. Try tone dialling and see
what happens.
On 22 Jul 99, at 14:46, Nettamer List wrote:
> Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 15:19:38 +0400
> From: "Mark @ Cross+Road's" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Okay, about the buglist....., another submit. :-)
>
> Hello again,
> On 1999-07-21 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> >Both you and the other person for whom you've relayed
> >information are using Net-Tamer in the Detroit area? Out of
> >curiosity, why are you pulse dialing instead of using touchtone?
> I have had this phoneline since before touchtone and when touchtone came
> to my area I refused to pay the $3 a month for something I can get by
> flipping a switch on the phone after it dials!
