Reply to post: Re: Phones - phooey

Sick of politicians robo-calling you? Bin your landline, says the FCC

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Re: Phones - phooey

000 was chosen in Australia as they found that children playing with the telephone would accidentally pulse-dial 111 by repeatedly pressing the hook switch.

A 0 requires 10 such pulses, so vastly reduced the number of false calls at the cost of a couple of seconds (easily less time than what would be spent telling a brat to stop playing with the phone).

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