No, indeed they can't. It just seemed like only a few short years ago, you could still dial out with them, but be unable to select from a voice menu -" if you are calling from a rotary phone, please stay on the line"
My point being, things change quickly now, and it's getting very expensive to keep up. Poor folk are doing without things we took for granted as always being affordable just 15 years ago. It's disheartening.