Re: Dial/Touch Tone Speeds (was Re: Bell Divestiture)

Would anyone remember in what year dual-mode phones (keypad with a

> little switch to convert to pulse if necessary) came out in wide > quantity? I think that was around the time they stopped using real > ringer bells. My guess is the late 1980s.

Third-party manufacturers of phones for direct attach to the PSTN offered it from nearly day one. That way you could have th 'fancy looking' push-button phone _without_ having to pay the telco extra every month for Touch-Tone(tm) service.

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Robert Bonomi
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