Comments on: SkypeOut for just $15, but touch tone blows http://redmonk.com/cote/2007/01/16/skypeout-for-just-15-but-touch-tone-blows/ One foot in the muck, the other in utopia Tue, 29 May 2012 14:02:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 By: Jason Moorhead http://redmonk.com/cote/2007/01/16/skypeout-for-just-15-but-touch-tone-blows/#comment-878 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:03:51 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/01/16/skypeout-for-just-15-but-touch-tone-blows/#comment-878 does the last poster's idea really work? is it just a matter of getting the right tone?

]]> By: Paul Fremantle http://redmonk.com/cote/2007/01/16/skypeout-for-just-15-but-touch-tone-blows/#comment-877 Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:55:05 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/01/16/skypeout-for-just-15-but-touch-tone-blows/#comment-877 The solution is simple! Hold your cell-phone or real phone near your microphone and dial the numbers. Its hokey but it works.

]]> By: Joe Andrieu http://redmonk.com/cote/2007/01/16/skypeout-for-just-15-but-touch-tone-blows/#comment-876 Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:28:56 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/01/16/skypeout-for-just-15-but-touch-tone-blows/#comment-876 It's DTMF, btw. Stands for Dual Tone Multi-Frequency. Uses two-tone beeps so people's voices don't accidentally trigger beep commands (important when control & voice were on the same channel).

Dunno much about how to handle the Skype problem, though.

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