Subj : Your cell phone bill?
To   : deon
From : TassieBob
Date : Wed Jul 20 2022 22:06:44

 de> I dont understand why somebody would want 2 (or 4) numbers for the
 de> same service, so I was wondering if it ment something different in the
 de> US.

IIRC, a long time ago Telstra offered this on the PSTN here (duet?) - with the primary application being to allow you to have a voice and fax service on the one line.  I think the secondary number had a different ring cadence or something so that the fax machine could grab the call.

My oldies had a fax machine that could fudge that sort of behaviour with one number, but it relied on answering every inbound call, listening for the fax tones, and if none were heard it'd make the attached handset ring.  Catch being that since the machine answered every call, the caller would get charged for the call even if you subsequently didn't answer the ringing handset.


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