topic Re: Rotary dial telephone in Talk

Rotary dial telephone

Cornish+H — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 19:54:07 GMT

I have recently started a Sky broadband / Sky Talk package. I have plugged my rotary dial telephone in to the router as advised and can hear a dialling tone. I can receive calls but can’t dial out for some reason. Is this because it’s a rotary telephone?

Re: Rotary dial telephone

GD1 — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 20:00:58 GMT

@Cornish+H I would guess that because the rotary phone doesn't sent DTMF tones the VOIP line can't cope with it.

Re: Rotary dial telephone

Cornish+H — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 20:03:45 GMT

Apologies, I have absolutely no idea what that means - can you explain in layman's terms please? Many thanks

Re: Rotary dial telephone

GD1 — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 20:05:00 GMT

@Cornish+H Modern phones send tones when you dial a number, a rotary phone doesn't

Re: Rotary dial telephone

Cornish+H — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 20:08:10 GMT

Ah, ok. So my old telephones won't work properly then. I need to get a more modern telephone for it to allow outgoing calls. Thank you for your help.

Re: Rotary dial telephone

davegardner47 — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 22:43:06 GMT

I have a seventies dial phone, it does ring and i can receive calls on it, however it won't dial out.

Re: Rotary dial telephone

Mark39 — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 06:38:36 GMT

@davegardner47 wrote:

I have a seventies dial phone, it does ring and i can receive calls on it, however it won't dial out.

Most likely for the reason given in @GD1's earlier post. You used to be able to buy a hand held tone generator which would overcome this, but I doubt they're still available.

Re: Rotary dial telephone

Haggis0307 — Sat, 31 May 2025 10:57:32 GMT

You can still get a pulse to tone converter. Theyre about £40.

Re: Rotary dial telephone

Daniel0210 — Sat, 31 May 2025 11:32:50 GMT

@Haggis0307

Hopefully 3 years after the question was asked the OP has sorted something.