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"Do you have dial tone?" he was asked.
— Claire Cain Miller Why Cellphones Don't Have Dial Tones Dangoldin.com | Turns out there's a technical reason cellphones don't have dial tones.
The other Jitterbug is more like a regular phone, but both have dial tones and larger keypads.
"Trying to download a patch is not the most intuitive thing to do, especially if you are like me and have dial up access at home," said Sallie MacDonald, a senior executive in Homeland Security's national cybersecurity division.
The New Yorker, May 31 , 1999P. 34 Talk story about telephone dial tones... Writer describes a moment in the new Drew Barrymore hit, "Never Been Kissed" where her cell phone emits a dial tone the classic Hollywood aural icon for Abrupt Hangup by Boss/Girlfriend/Kidnapper. It seems unremarkable until, after a few seconds, you begin to think, Say, cell phones don't have dial tones, do they?
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It did have dial-up access, which is like having no Internet at all.
"There are a lot of communities in Maine where people have dial-up.
(The company is now developing software for those who have dial-up connections).
According to the government's multimedia regulator, 3.9m of the country's 28m people have dial-up internet subscriptions and 1.2m broadband.
"A lot of farmers have dial-up modems, so that's something we took into account," Mr. Miller said.
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