why would anyone set their phone to the pulse setting? It takes 30 minutes just to dial a number? Why do phones even have that option?
2007-02-22 03:26:16 · 8 answers · asked by Donna 2 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Land Phones
Because once upon a time phones had rotary dials where they sent a series of pulses over the lines instead of the touch tones we have today. The reason phone had this was in case your phone service didn't offer tone dialing. I don't think it even matters any more. But up until probably 1985-1990 it did. I don't think newer phones have the option anymore.
2007-02-22 03:32:18 · answer #1 · answered by Justin H 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pulse is how phone systems operated decades ago, before touch-tone existed. Remember the old dial phones? They generated pulses on the phone line that transmitted the number you dialed to the phone company. Touch-tone was a new technology that made dialing much faster (important for emergency calls, and more convenient overall), and gave us the push-button phone.
If, for some reason, your phone line only supports the very old pulse format, and not touch-tone, then you need a phone that has a "pulse" setting, so that it sends pulses over the wire, not tones.
I'm not sure you can even get pulse-only service these days. Touch-tone has been around for 30 or 40 years, and is just about the 100% standardservice these days.
2007-02-22 03:28:26 · answer #2 · answered by Steven D 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pulse is the equivalent of the old rotary dial phones. Most systems no longer recognize it. However, some phones still have the option, just in case.
2007-02-22 03:29:28 · answer #3 · answered by SA16 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
These would generally be older model phones, or a phone that was designed many years ago and has not been updated, to work with older phone lines. I'm not sure if pulse phone lines still exist, but if they do, you would need a pulse phone.
2007-02-22 03:29:51 · answer #4 · answered by leaptad 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Touch tone is fast and less prone to error than pulse dialing. ... Why carbon microphone in telephones ? .....
2007-02-22 03:33:21 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they are old and dated. You should get a new phone
2007-02-22 03:33:46 · answer #6 · answered by SheSoFly 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some elderly folks actually still have analog phone service, so they still sell the phones.
2007-02-22 03:29:05 · answer #7 · answered by Zebra4 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
maybe for blind ppl so they can hear how many pulses they have dialed
2007-02-22 03:28:21 · answer #8 · answered by flaming red 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋