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- Path: netcom.com!puma
- From: puma@netcom.com (Gary Breuckman)
- Subject: Re: Upgrade old US Robotics Courier HST?
- Message-ID: <pumaDpJo1J.JsC@netcom.com>
- Organization: organized?? me?
- References: <316097ce.16163818@news.premier.net> <4k9htd$5ma@bell.maths.tcd.ie> <4k9ksg$on1@nntp1.best.com> <4kaul1$q6b@bell.maths.tcd.ie>
- Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 12:58:31 GMT
- Sender: puma@netcom11.netcom.com
-
- In article <4kaul1$q6b@bell.maths.tcd.ie>,
- Timothy Murphy <tim@maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
- >
- >Thanks for the info.
- >Is there actually a difference between the versions in the US/Canada
- >and elsewhere?
- >Or is this just a sales ploy?
- >
- >[I have a couple of ZyXEL modems which I bought in Canada,
- >and which were supposed to be specially for the US/Canada,
- >but which seem to work perfectly well in Europe.
- >I came to the conclusion ZyXEL were just defending
- >their local distributors.]
-
-
- Many (most?) European countries have regulations on modems that are
- different than the US/Canada. The certification required for Canada is
- different, but the functionality is the same as the US version. However
- for European countries there is a requirement for "blacklisting" numbers
- in many places, ie., if you dial a call that's unanswered or answered
- non-data you are restricted in how soon and how many times you can call
- that number. Modems sold there must comply with that requirement, and
- the user must (should?) not be able to defeat it (say, by changing a
- country code in the setup).
-
- Also, the call progress tones (dialtone, busy) are different in some
- countries, different enough that a US modem will perhaps not recognize
- them, and the versions sold for that country have firmware changes to
- allow for those differences.
-
-
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