Re: [Nolug] Verizon high speed wireless

From: Joey Kelly <joey@joeykelly.net>
Date: Thursday, December 02, 2004 10:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Nolug] Verizon high speed wireless
<snip>
>As an aside, rotary phone service is or was marginally cheaper than
DTMF
>dialing (there used to be an additional charge for pushbotton
service), but
>in reality users requiring or requesting rotary service meant that
the phone
>company had to take extra steps per call to interpret the rotary
clicks and
>translate them into DTMF tones, at least after their network went
digital.
>Rotary was in fact more expensive for them, but they marketed the
perceived
>value of convenient pushbutton dialing and charge the customer more
for what
>actually cost Bell less to provide.
>> ray

Hmmm, kind of like 50 cents for a Coke and 75 cents for a bottle of
water.
Dave Prentice
prentice@instruction.com
http://www.originsresource.org

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