Rotary phone lines no more
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- Опубликовано: 9 авг 2017
- 'CRTC approves SaskTel's bid to discontinue rotary dial service in the province.'
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video source: www.cbc.ca/player/play/2218614032
Fond memories of visits to Sasktel in Regina Saskatchewan, 30+ years ago.
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About the same year this video came out, I tried using the very same model to try to disconnect my 2-wire POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) and discovered that it was impossible to do with a rotary dial telephone due to the automated phone tree system they used.
That model was in production from 1935 to 1954. It was the first self contained desk phone (didn't require a subset for ringer and network), and first phone available in colors other than black (painted metal and later painted Bakelite shell) It was superseded by the #500 (colored thermoplastic shell), which remained in production until the breakup of AT&T in the 1980s. A Touch-Tone version of the #500, known as the #2500, was introduced in the 1960s, and would be the perfect replacement for the phone in the video. They can be found online (PHONECO), and at antique stores and thrift stores.
I used one in 2019 or 2020 on our phone line in the U.S.A new york and it worked lol
Rotary (pulse) dialing still works on Bell-MTS in Manitoba. However, you are stuck when you get to a dial up menu. Fortunately, you can install a pulse to tone translator in your old phone. Many restorers do this on all the phones they restore.
@@dougbrowning82 I use one tied to an Obihai VOIP box with a Google voice number and haven't had a phone bill since. After I set that up, I tried to cut my phone service using pulse dialing and found that task to be impossible due to their dual-tone only phone tree.
If he wanted to keep using his phone, he could have bought a pulse to tone converter.