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Re: Rotary dial phonse work on modern landlines (FIOS, Cable)?

From Lawrence Statton NK1G <lawrence@senguio.mx>
Newsgroups alt.folklore.computers
Subject Re: Rotary dial phonse work on modern landlines (FIOS, Cable)?
Date 2016-03-12 09:38 -0600
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hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com writes:

> Would anyone know with certainly if an old style rotary dial telephone
> can dial calls on FIOS lines, lines from the cable company, and similar
> such services?
>
> I've heard that they can, they such setups do use regular phones.

It depends entirely on the features of the terminal adapter.  The one I
had (made by Huawei) did fine.  A friend in the US reports that his (mfr
unknown to me) does not.

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Rotary dial phonse work on modern landlines (FIOS, Cable)? hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-03-11 21:25 -0800
  Re: Rotary dial phonse work on modern landlines (FIOS, Cable)? philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2016-03-12 04:33 -0600
    Re: Rotary dial phonse work on modern landlines (FIOS, Cable)? hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-03-12 10:40 -0800
      Re: Rotary dial phonse work on modern landlines (FIOS, Cable)? philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2016-03-12 13:29 -0600
    Re: Rotary dial phonse work on modern landlines (FIOS, Cable)? "Joe Morris" <j.c.morris@verizon.net> - 2016-03-16 06:44 -0400
  Re: Rotary dial phonse work on modern landlines (FIOS, Cable)? Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2016-03-12 08:08 -0600
  Re: Rotary dial phonse work on modern landlines (FIOS, Cable)? Lawrence Statton NK1G <lawrence@senguio.mx> - 2016-03-12 09:38 -0600
  Re: Rotary dial phonse work on modern landlines (FIOS, Cable)? David Jones <djones60@gmail.com> - 2016-03-21 14:37 -0700

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