Re: The 000 country phone number hoax
  By: Robert Bashe to mark lewis on Sun Jul 08 2018 03:44 pm

RB> Maybe in the States, but certainly not here in Germany. I get a dial tone
RB> on my ISDN line every time I pick up the phone.

Do you have a digital handset of some type? Dial tone was handled by the ATA in
the states, and if you picked up an analog handset you'd get dialtone from the
ATA. You didn't get ring voltage, however, so your phone wouldn't ring on
incoming calls - at least with my Motorola BitSurfr modem.
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