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

From "Joe Morris" <j.c.morris@verizon.net>
Newsgroups alt.folklore.computers
Subject Re: Rotary dial phonse work on modern landlines (FIOS, Cable)?
Date 2016-03-16 06:44 -0400
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"philo" <philo@privacy.net> wrote:
> On 03/11/2016 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?

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

> Nope

> I still have a few dial phones and when I switched to fiber optic, the 
> dial does not function

It apparently depends on the make and model (and perhaps configuration of) 
ONI that Verizon used at your location.  In my case (and to my surprise) I 
discovered a few years back that my old AECo buttpack phone (which I bought 
back in the 1960s) had no problems dialing phone numbers.

No, I've not tried it recently, so that feature might have disappeared.

Joe 

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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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