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Posted by Steven Lichter on August 10, 2008, 4:34 pm
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Mark Smith wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----
>> Sent: Saturday, August 9, 2008 5:54:17 PM
>> Subject: Re: History -- introduction of Touch Tone in Independent
Companies? [telecom]
>>
>>> Many Independents had small Step by Step exchanges which were not as
>>> efficient to convert to TT since basically a frequency converter
>>> translated the tones into pulses. The Bell System developed several
>>> types of converters, including an inexpensive one (see Bell System
>>> History).
>> As late as 1993, my mother had a pulse-only line in Mechanicsburg,
>> Pennsylvania, which could not have touch-tone without changing the
>> phone number (717-697). You had to be careful about terminology,
>> because she DID have a "push-button phone" (which was set to pulse
>> dial), and she didn't know about the technical stuff.
>>
>> Eventually she did change the phone number, possibly because she
>> moved into a nursing home (also in Mechanicsburg) and the internal
>> phone system there didn't handle non-touch-tone lines, although she
>> did have the original number ringing at her room in the nursing
>> home for a couple of years. As her condition changed, they moved
>> her around, and the phone number followed her until it eventually
>> changed, which might have coincided with her moving into a new
>> building.
>>
>> I'm not sure what phone company handled her line, although I thought
>> it was Pennsylvania Bell.
>
> It probably wasn't Bell of PA,
> There were a bunch of independent
> Telcos in central PA and they
> delighted in charging exorbitant
> intrastate LD charges between
> companies. If you had Bell of PA,
> you could call Philadelphia or
> Pittsburgh for a fraction of
> calling the next town over :-(
>
> Mark L. Smith
>
>
>
Back then rates were regulated, so what they charged was based on what
it costs them in interconnect charges with other companies.
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