dunne@uunet.uu.net (Jim E. Dunne) (03/19/91)
[Moderator's Note: Illinois Bell gives *70 for free. PAT] (regarding Call Waiting disabling) Well, as of this month, Illinois Bell is asking me to pay for the TouchTone service I had been getting for free. I got one of those carbon-paper envelopes saying 'we'll disconnect the following services unless you agree to the charges listed', and the only applicable one for me was tone. Oh well, $0.73/month (plus taxes of course!) isn't too bad for the ability to dial with my computer and the like. At least they included a "Business Reply Mail" envelope... Jim Dunne Motorola Cellular ...uunet!motcid!dunne [Moderator's Note: So the auditor's office out in Harvey, IL finally caught up with you, eh? With the ESS echanges, they are smart that way, and very little gets past them now. PAT]
robert@uunet.uu.net> (03/21/91)
motcid!void!dunne@uunet.uu.net (Jim E. Dunne) writes: > [Moderator's Note: Illinois Bell gives *70 for free. PAT] (regarding Call Waiting disabling) > Well, as of this month, Illinois Bell is asking me to pay for the > TouchTone service I had been getting for free. > [text deleted] > Oh well, $0.73/month (plus taxes of course!) isn't > too bad for the ability to dial with my computer and the like. At > least they included a "Business Reply Mail" envelope... I think most Hayes compatible modems will support pulse dialing. And can even switch to tone later for entering calling card numbers. I do this all the time. I don't pay for TouchTone service, but my modem pulse dials the number then tone dials the calling card number. And my phones are either tone/pulse switchable or BOTH tone and pulse (I have a 2500 deskset I modified with a rotary dial sitting next to it and wires running into the case; looks like something out of the movie Brazil!). Robert Oliver Rabbit Software Corp. 215 993-1152 7 Great Valley Parkway East Malvern, PA 19355 robert@hutch.Rabbit.COM ...!uunet!cbmvax!hutch!robert