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- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 04:17:10 GMT
- From: jon_sree@world.std.com (Jon Sreekanth)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Telecom Observations From my Trip to England
- Message-ID: <telecom12.622.3@eecs.nwu.edu>
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- In article <telecom12.615.1@eecs.nwu.edu> weave@bach.udel.edu (Ken
- Weaverling) writes:
-
- > I found out later that you can enable the touch-tone pad on BT pay
- > phones after call completion by pressing the * button. I tried this at
- > the airport while I was waiting for my return flight, and it worked!
- > However, the tones were too short to grab the attention of my
- > answering machine. This "feature" is not documented on any of the pay
- > phones I used.
-
- It seems to be a sort of "feature" even on phones here. My Panasonic
- KX T3155 speakerphone has a slide switch between pulse and DTMF mode.
- With the switch in pulse mode, pressing the * key changes over into
- DTMF mode. I'm not sure if the * itself is transmitted or not.
-
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- Jon Sreekanth
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