: Friday, March 21, 2003 6:01 AM
To: j...@aol.com; emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org
Subject: Re: Use of the # button on telephone dial
Don't know if it's still in use, but # # was the code to inhibit rotary
repeaters.
John
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Don't know if it's still in use, but # # was the code to inhibit rotary
repeaters.
John
j...@aol.com
Joe,
Here in Montreal, Bell Telephone voice mail requires the # button at the end
of the user password.
Best regards,
David.
David Gelfand
Approvals/Design Engineer
Memotec Inc.
Tel: 514 738 4781 x4151
Fax: 514 738 4436
david.gelf...@memotec.com
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followed by names that are reported but rarely seen; official ANSI/CCITT names
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A curious point:
I noticed that the correspondence on this topic has all avoided using a name
for the # key. That's a good thing too, because it has different names in
various countries.
In the US, we tend to hear it called pound sign. That is clearly
ridiculous to the British, who bloody well
In the US, some networks use it in place of the * in their features. For
example, some use a #69 instead of *69. Many PBXs use the # in their codes,
such as #8 (T) for transfer, then the extension.
Hope this helps,
Sam
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In message 12c.26201efa.2bab8...@aol.com j...@aol.com writes:
Sorry if this is a little off-topic, but is anyone aware of any central
office features, or other network features, that use the # button on the
standard telephone DTMF keypad? I know of some features that use the *
button,
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