[comp.dcom.telecom] 800 service from abroad

dave@rutgers.edu (12/11/88)

The service that provides a gateway for calls from beyond the USA to reach
domestic 800 numbers depends upon the caller being able to send touch tone
signaling.  While this may be helpful to Canadians (where touch tone is
almost as popular as it is in the USA) I'm not sure how much use this is
to callers from the U.K. or from Europe.  As I recall, tone-dialing is
not widely available there.  Also, does anybody know if the tone-dial
equipment there uses the same tone-pairs as we do here?

Dave Levenson
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