[comp.dcom.telecom] Outpulsing DTMF during a cellular call

covert%covert.DEC@decwrl.dec.com (John R. Covert) (11/17/88)

>> Even my cellular car phone, which doesn't use TouchTones for dialing
>> either, generates tones when I push the buttons so I can play with
>> voice mailboxes and such.
>
>Does your phone make them or are they generated by cellular dialer to
>DTMF converted somwhere at the interface between the celular net and
>the regular phone system?

The cellular phone generates them.

/john