FOX News: FCC announces plans to upgrade century-old phone system

[Joseph Bento]

On 11/21/2013 5:43 PM, Louis Mamakos wrote:

> If you’re a Vonage customer, you can still use your rotary phones with 
> that service. At least that was the case while I was CTO before 
> leaving a few years back. I even had an ancient Bell 113 DataPhone on 
> my desk, with a quite robust mechanical ringer as my own personal test 
> configuration. And to frighten the young engineers with.
>
> louie
> wa3ymh
>

Nothing beats a good 'ol Model 500 desk phone or 505 wall phone. Rotary 
dial works on Comcast. I have a 50 year old (actually date stamped 1959) 
fire engine red 505 wall phone hooked up in the basement.

Joe, N6DGY