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- From: naddy@mips.pfalz.de (Christian Weisgerber)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Do UK and US have same telephone system?
- Date: 3 Feb 1996 00:52:46 +0100
- Message-ID: <4eu84e$np7@mips.pfalz.de>
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- Ismail bin Mustapha <cplan@pop.jaring.my> writes:
-
- > Can anyone tell me if a modem bought in US work in UK and vice-versa?
-
- Mostly.
-
- A US modem will reliably "recognize" the British remote ringing signal
- as a busy tone. (Can't blame it, I'm fooled myself every time I make a
- call to the UK.) There might be other incompatibilities with call
- progress signals, forcing you to switch off recognition of these.
-
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