On Mon, 28 May 2012 12:25:38 -0500, dpb wrote:

On 5/28/2012 12:10 PM, NotMe wrote:
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Recall phone company charged and still do for touch tone service when it was
actually cheaper for them to use touch tone than dial pulse.

Not what I recall--we were still on pulse until SW Bell finally
converted the tie-in to the switches in town (within the last 15 years)
and afaicr the base rate didn't change.
Up here on Bell Canada we still had a pulse line until last year when
we replaced our last rotary phone. Charge went up when we got touch
tone. They had been a bit miffed for years that we had not changed
up.