I get the impression that almost all countries use Touch Tone service
> on their telephones. For places that never had much landline service
> to begin with, people are heavy into cellular, which of course is
> Touch Tone. (Apparently in an undeveloped place it's cheap to build a
> new cellular network than landline since stringing wires
> house-to-house and store-to-store are not required.)
> Anyway, I was wondering if there were any places where legacy rotary
> dial switchgear was still the primary method of handling calls. I
> tend to doubt it since electronics are so much cheaper and easier to
> maintain. Rotary equipment required skilled maintenance.
We just had this same discussion on Monday and I wonder the same thing. SxS equipment is huge and bulky, and you can put 1000 lines in a box the size of a 4 cubic foot refrigerator, that will use less power and require no maintenance except to keep it environmentally warm/cool and dust free.
Just where does all of that Step equipment go?
Carl Navarro