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Touch-Tone Telephone Coding

 

 

 

 

         

 

The keypad of a touch-tone telephone has 12 keys arranged in 4 rows and 3 columns, wherein each key represents a number or character used for making telephone calls.  Each of these keys is encoded using two tones of different frequencies.  Table 1 below shows the two frequencies used for encoding each of the keys in a touch-telephone keypad.

   

Table 1.  Touch-Tone Telephone Coding Frequencies

Frequency (Hz)

1209

1336

1477

697

1

2

3

770

4

5

6

852

7

8

9

941

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0

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