[mod.telecom] Only DTMF on DID trunks

covert@COVERT.DEC.COM.UUCP (07/29/86)

>MF signaling has clearly entered the private sector, as it has been available
>for several years in many areas from a telephone company CO on DID trunks to
>customer-owned PABX's equipped with direct inward dialing.  Clearly customers
>owning and companies maintaining such PABX's have a need to possess MF senders
>for test purposes.

Only partly true.  I have yet to see a TELCO willing to send anything but dial
pulse or DTMF (Touch-Tone) on PBX DID trunks, and in some cases even getting
that is quite difficult.  MF seems to only be used on PBX-PBX tie trunks, and
never on any PBXs from Western Electric.

/john