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Posted by Pop on July 13, 2005, 12:11 pm
> So it would be illegal to plug it into your home
> phone modular jack in the UK?
>
> Tom
Technically, yes, if you got caught. There might be
operational problems too since the UK uses different
ringing frequencies and patterns than we do here. Ring
detection is always the biggest problem manufacturer's
have in their designs. The phone may or may not ring
if it had an electronic ringer, espeically if it were
not designed to allow for multi-country patterns, etc..
It's kind of a long subject, but technically,
depending on where you were in the UK, it -might- work.
Since it's a pay phone, if any of the coin sensors
are still working inside it it's going to have a hefty
REN (Ringer Equivalence Number) also. It's possible
but not necessarily likely it might set off an alarm in
the central office as the phone tries to switch to the
coin ckts. They would definitely have to be disabled.
The brits are more strict with their phone
regulations than we are here in North America. They're
stricter with lots of things. Like over $1,000 to get
a driver's license, a tax called a license, to own a TV
set, which you must be able to produce upon demand,
etc.. The TV thing came about in the war when they
were being turned into transmitters with their parts
and the laws were just never changed - so now it's
actually a tax but the law is still there about the
license, so ... ya get one when you buy a TV.
Lotsa interesting stuff 'cross the pond as they call
it. \
HTH,
Pop
PS Henslee's got a neat set of responses, eh? Guess he
figued to cover both bases; no way he can be wrong with
two conflicting responses.
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>
>>
>>>I have a pay phone in my home thats does not require
>>>coins to make a call.
>>>
>>> Do you think that the phone would operate in a
>>> home with out coins in the UK, the same as in the
>>> states?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Tom
>>>
>> Well, yes and no. It might work but it would be
>> illegal to connect to their telephone network
>> because it wouldn't have their equivalent of UL, FCC
>> and other telecom specs. Their telephone networks
>> are quite different from ours. I used to do
>> international complaince testing for telecom mfgrs
>> and North American phones cannot pass their tests,
>> just as their phones cannot pass our tests. It's
>> not one better than the other, just different.
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Pop
>>
>>
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