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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 8224510, member: 27832&quot;]We had rotary phones well into my adulthood, because the phone company was entitled to charge something like an extra 25% on their base rate to support touch-tone service. It <i>cost the phone company less money</i> for people to use tone dialing (it didn&#039;t tie up their switching equipment as long), but because the law said they could charge more for it, they did. We figured we could wait a little longer for the phone to finish dialing. (We even had push-button phones that sent pulse-dialing signals.)</p><p><br /></p><p>When corporate greed and legal inertia work together, there&#039;s nothing they can&#039;t accomplish. Or fail to accomplish.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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