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

From Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com>
Newsgroups alt.folklore.computers
Subject Re: Rotary dial phonse work on modern landlines (FIOS, Cable)?
Date 2016-03-12 08:08 -0600
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On 3/11/2016 11:25 PM, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
> 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?

If you could tell us the make and model of the interface hardware 
involved, someone could probably tell you. That's what it depends on, 
rather than how the last mile is wired. I can tell you that pulse does 
not work with a Cisco SPA-2102 ATA (VoIP adapter). I believe some 
other ATAs will accept pulse dialing.

> I've heard that they can, they such setups do use regular phones.

That's a different question entirely. The SPA-2102 uses regular phones 
(in my case, including one 2500-style phone with a real bell ringer), 
it just won't accept pulse dialing.
>
> Thanks!
>
> (Business modern phones over digital lines require different
> altogether different sets.)

Those phones have the electronics built into them, so they don't 
generate either pulses or tones. Same with a "soft" phone, which uses 
your computer for the hardware and its ethernet connection for the wire.

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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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