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Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by rsynnott on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @01:39PM (#24052462)
Even worse; in some countries, touch tone exchanges took a while to roll out, with the result that keypad phones which supported both pulse dialing and tone dialing were common. And then people never switched them over to tone dialing. There were people pulse dialing into the 21st century.
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Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by coryrc on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @04:03PM (#24053946)
In the 90s, my family saved $2.68/mo on the phone bill by opting out of tone dialing.
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