I'm pretty sure that most modern exchanges still support pulse dialing, but you may have problems with automated phone systems as IIRC they rely on the DMTF signalling.
There are many modern phones that can be switched between pulse and tone dialling by using a switch underneath the main body of the phone, this could be used to test it...
Matt
-----Original Message----- From: main-bounces@lists.alug.org.uk [mailto:main-bounces@lists.alug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Ted Harding Sent: 15 April 2007 01:02 To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: Re: [ALUG] OT: Holt telephone exchange
On 14-Apr-07 22:01:27, Adam Bower wrote:
On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 10:19:54PM +0100, Ian bell wrote:
We are moving to Holt soon and would like to get an old style pulse dial telephone. Does anyone know if this type of phone will work with the Holt telephone exchange?
No idea on if you can or not... but I must ask... why?
Adam
Presumably because some of those old models are very elegantly retro ...
Or maybe Ian fancies setting up a simulacrum of a World Way II communications bunker?
(I was going to carry out a test via my own exchange, Brandon Creek, since if a few of us so that it will basically be a test of random BT exchanges, given how widely we're scattered, but I haven't laid hands on my own old phone yet. But it's somewhere ... )
Best wishes to all, Ted.
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