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  1. FCC Proposes Robocall Scorecard to Evaluate Phone Companies' Spam Call Blocking Efforts

    📰 Original title: FCC Plans Robocall Scorecard to Grade Phone Companies On Spam Call Blocking

    🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
    👥 Users: It's not clickbait ✅

    👇👇👇 en.killbait.com/fcc-proposes-r

    #technology #robocallregulation #phonecompany...

  2. @EdwinG

    Huh. It must be a month with between 28 and 31 days in it.

    #PhoneCompany #WeDontCareWeDontHaveTo

  3. @Impish4249 @allanb

    Rotary phones were in use long after that in Canada, and probably other places, but touch-tone was also available. In the late 80s/early 90s I still had a line that would only do pulse dialing, because touch-tone dialing was an add-on charge with the phone company where I lived.

    It was a significant amount; just adding touch-tone support increased the monthly bill by almost 10%. Yes, this was a BS charge, because it was just a flag they set on your account. It didn't cost them anything to provide tone dialing. They still do the same thing with caller-ID, so I don't have it. "We don't care. We're the phone company; we don't have to."

    At the time, many (perhaps most) phones you could buy had push-button dialing, but there was a switch on the phone to choose pulse or tone dialing. If you set it to pulse, you'd push the 7 button, and then you'd hear 7 clicks, etc.

    So kind of "hybrid dialing".

    #Canada #phone #telephone #pulse #tone #dial #TouchTone #dialing #rotary #WeDontCare #PhoneCompany

  4. Do ya think TELUS knows how bad the phone line quality was to the call centre to ask about my bill? #PhoneCompany #irony

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