kendall@uunet.uu.net (kendall) (10/16/89)
Dear Pat: Your moderated newsgroup is addicting, to say the least. I have spent the past four hours reading almost 200 articles of comp.dcom.telecom. But, then what better use of my time would there be on this windy, rainy Spring day? Anyway I understand a lot of the Chicago humour (Hudson 2-2700, etc) having lived in St Joseph, Michigan 15 years ago. By the way, I brought with me one of those great 2500 telephones. In Australia there is no touch-tone service, but fortunately the university has a PABX which accepts tones locally, converting them to dec. (pulses) for outside calls. Also, everyone else in the department has electronic warble ringers which contrast nicely with my bell ringer. Rich Zellich's story about a wrong number to Australia reminds me of something that I did whilst ringing for international operator assistance. I was living Davis, California at the time. I needed to find out the telephone number of friends in Tasmania so I naively dialled 011-6102-5551212 thinking that the domestic method of directory assistance would generalise to overseas directory assistance. Instead I rang a private residence. From her irritated explanation, I readily discerned that this was not the first wrong number the lady had received from North America. When I received the next month's Sprint 'phone bill I was very surprised to see that I had been charged the directory service fee for the call, not the usual per minute charge. I suppose that it was a bug in the software. I reckon that might be useful to the lady if she had any friends in North America. Jon Kendall@diemen.cc.utas.au.oz
dave@uunet.uu.net (Dave Horsfall) (10/19/89)
In article <telecom-v09i0451m01@vector.dallas.tx.us>, kendall@diemen.utas.oz.au <Jon D. Kendall> writes: | | In Australia there is no touch-tone service.... Speak for yourself, Taswegian! It's being introduced in many parts of the mainland, but I can't speak for the funny little island to the south of us.... :-) :-) :-) Dave Horsfall (VK2KFU), Alcatel STC Australia, dave@stcns3.stc.oz.AU dave%stcns3.stc.oz.AU@uunet.UU.NET, ...munnari!stcns3.stc.oz.AU!dave