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- From: sjm@cocamrd.mel.cocam.oz.au (John Machin)
- Newsgroups: aus.comms
- Subject: Re: Alpha phone numbers?
- Message-ID: <1624@rand.mel.cocam.oz.au>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 08:35:44 GMT
- References: <C0rF8K.Dqz@syd.dms.CSIRO.AU> <7135@otc.otca.oz> <1993Jan19.025825.16833@cujo.curtin.edu.au>
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- Organization: Co-Cam Computer Group, Oz
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- In article <1993Jan19.025825.16833@cujo.curtin.edu.au> steve@iron.curtin.edu.au (Steve Maddocks) writes:
- |brendan@otc.otca.oz (Brendan Jones) writes:
- |
- |>Two programs are listed below. A snack to write, really. If the DTMF cipher
- |>listed here does not compare with your keypad, that's easy enough to change.
- |>(Q and Z are on the '1' key in this program)
- |
- |This is interesting (and a little bit of a worry) to me.
- |
- |The voice-mail system we use here at Curtin (Aspen) has NOTHING on the '1'
- |key. 'Q' is on '7' and 'Z' is on '9'.
- |
- |However, the shiny new Touchfone 200 I bought for home (because I wanted
- |alpha on the keys) has 'Q & Z' on the '1' key. Instant application
- |incompatibility!
- |
- |Did someone mention an AUSTEL standard? Does anyone know if the Touchfone
- |adheres to or ignores it?
-
- My impression is that the Aspen system uses an American standard (or de
- facto standard). The Touchphone 200 uses the Austel standard. I do recall
- there was a small article in a daily newspaper when the Austel standard
- came out; article grumbled that Austel std != Yank std. Article quoted
- Austel response which as I recall seemed pretty weak to me.
-
- Anyone have any more details?
-
-
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- John Machin
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