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- From: dar@etude.demon.co.uk
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Do UK and US have same telephone system?
- Date: 3 Feb 1996 10:15:39 GMT
- Organization: Any opinions expressed here are .. No dammit, they are all accurate and true :)
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- In news:4eu84e$np7@mips.pfalz.de naddy@mips.pfalz.de (Christian Weisgerber) says:
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- > Ismail bin Mustapha <cplan@pop.jaring.my> writes:
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- > > Can anyone tell me if a modem bought in US work in UK and vice-versa?
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- > Mostly.
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- > 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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- > --
- > Christian 'naddy' Weisgerber naddy@mips.pfalz.de
- > See another pointless homepage at <URL:http://home.pages.de/~naddy/>.
- > -- currently reading: Lois McMaster Bujold, Shards of Honor --
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- Ah - well my Zoom 14.4 was purchased in the USA,
- and works fine with X4 set (i.e. detecting Busy signal)
-