On Thu, 11 Jul 2019 08:35:54 -0000 (UTC), gregz
wrote:

Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Sun, 7 Jul 2019 17:46:00 -0500, Fox's Mercantile
wrote:

On 7/7/19 4:11 PM, whit3rd wrote:
Does your telephone exchange still accept dial phone input?

AT&T was going to charge extra for DTMF dialing.
The FCC stepped in.
They made a deal with the devil. (AT&T)
You can charge for DTMF, BUT....You will continue to accept
pulse dialing forever.
MagicJack won't accept pulse dialing, however, AT&T does as
well as my Asterisk PBX.
Which is great, I have an original Stromberg Carlson candle
stick phone with a rotary dial. It works "just fine."

U-Verse voice, cable internet gateways, Magic Jack, and VoIP adapters
will NOT work with a rotary dial phone. However, there are dial pulse
to DTMF adapters available for about $40:
https://www.voip-info.org/dial-pulse-to-touchtone-dtmf-converters/

My previous Comcast cable box worked on pulse. Newer one doesn't.
Greg

It might have been able to make an outgoing phone call, but I doubt it
has a way to dial "*" or "#". Perhaps a 12 digit dial? Notice that
all the features require at least a "*":
https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/phone-quick-reference-guide

"Telephone Keys Used with Xfinity Voice Features"
https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/get-started-digital-voice-features
"Rotary telephones are not compatible with Xfinity Voice service."

In 1996, Congress passed the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which
deregulated the telephone industry, thus allowing them to remove or
ignore the requirement to support pulse dialing. I vaguely recall
that this was about the time when support of pulse dialing rapidly
disappeared in both instruments and at the exchanges. However,
companies that have an international market for their devices seem to
have continued to support pulse dialing, at least until all the
exchanges have upgraded their equipment:
http://www.learnbydestroying.com/jeffl/pics/Beirut-Telco/index.html




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