Everett Hertenstein wrote in a message to MIKE ROSS:

 EH> MIKE ROSS wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 MR> The phone company would also like to be rid of pulse 
 MR> dialing phones.

 EH> IMHO, if this is what they want, they should be charging me extra
 EH> for a pulse dial line instead of charging extra for a tone dial.

Exactly.  It's costing them _more_ to support pulse dialing these days, 
particularly since things moved to electronic switching,  but the
legislators and others who regulate those folks don't seem to be aware of
that.  Yet? 

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