Subj : Your cell phone bill?
To   : TassieBob
From : deon
Date : Thu Jul 21 2022 13:52:13

  Re: Your cell phone bill?
  By: TassieBob to deon on Wed Jul 20 2022 10:06 pm

 > 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.

Yeah, I had that, when I was running a dialup service.

It meant voice calls could be answered by me (the modem would ignore them), and the data calls where answered on a different ring (distinctive ring I think it was called).

It worked well.


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