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On Monday, April 2, 2018 at 9:28:17 PM UTC-4, John Levine wrote:

> >> When I was in high school ca. 1980, I saw a note in the local paper that
> >> Nine Mile Canyon was finally being converted to rotary dial. This was in
> >> rural Utah.
> >
> >	Wow I'm surprised they didn't skip pulse and go straight to tone only.

> I expect it handled both rotary and pulse and the paper got it
> slightly wrong.

Agreed.

 
> I believe it's still pretty rare to have a switch on the PSTN that
> can't handle pulse dialed numbers.  There's a lot of old burglar alarm
> and other equipment that does pulse dialing and is not upgraded very
> often.  On modern switches I wouldn't think the incremental cost of a
> few pulse digit receivers would be significant.

It seems that the traditional landline service will support
rotary-pulse dialing.  However, the telephone companies want
out of that business.

I don't know if FIOS or VOIP services support rotary.  I've heard
conflicting reports (FIOS=maybe, VOIP, no.)

In the workplace, a traditional Verizon-provided Centrex line
still supports rotary-pulse service.  However, various digital
services do not (at least not in my office.)  It appears 
companies want to abandon traditional Verizon provided Centrex,
though it still has some advantages--like working in a power
failure while the digital does not.

Traditional landline service keeps working during a power failure.
It appears that FIOS will continue only for a few hours, and VOIP
not at all, depending on whether the user has sufficient backup
battery power hooked into their lines.

It is sad the quality of our telephone service is going backwards.