Here in South Florida Touch-tone was an add-on product. If you did not subscribe to 'tone-tone' service the line would not react to DTMF. However at the same time many IVR were starting to appear. So you would use the 'Pulse' setting to dial into the IVR and then switch to 'tone' to navigate.
Alex > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:asterisk-biz- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Totaro > Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2007 12:28 PM > To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion > Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] 800 DID's > > Many have a little toggle switch on the side. Why? I have no idea. > > Thanks, > Steve > > Eric Babcock wrote: > > YAY! Now I just need to find one of those phones so I can play..... > > Think I can still find one at WalMart? > > > > -Eric > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin P. > > Fleming > > Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2007 11:47 AM > > To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion > > Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] 800 DID's > > > > Eric Babcock wrote: > > > > > >> **To my knowledge, Digium didn't build in support for rotary phones** > >> > > (I > > > >> may be wrong on this one though) > >> > > > > Yes, in fact, you are :-) > > > > Asterisk (chan_zap and IAXy devices) support pulse-dial phones just > > fine; of course you can't use a pulse-dial phone to navigate an IVR > > without a device to translate to DTMF for you, but if you want to play, > > hook up a pulse-dial phone to an IAXy (or an Asterisk box) and then call > > through it to an IVR :-) SNIP _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
