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- Date: 12 Aug 92 00:23:55 GMT
- From: julian%bongo.UUCP@nosc.mil (Julian Macassey)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: More Notes About German Telekom
- Reply-To: julian@bongo.info.com (Julian Macassey)
- Message-ID: <telecom12.623.4@eecs.nwu.edu>
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 623, Message 4 of 11
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- In article <telecom12.613.9@eecs.nwu.edu> is written:
- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 613, Message 9 of 14
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- Talking about being a Telekom customer in Germany:
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- > We don't have a touch tone phone, but we do lease the cheapest one
- > they offer.
-
- > I brought over a rotary unit that I keep plugged into my modem. One
- > thing your note didn't mention is a big gripe of mine ... there is a
- > big charge for having a second phone (extension) in your house ... and
- > it's not the same as in the USA ... according to the lady that took my
- > order, there is a law against two units listening in on the same line.
-
- Yes, the Germans will tell you that it is "technically
- impossible" to have more than one extension operating on the line at
- one time. Bullshit. The German phones will cut off when the line
- voltage gets too low (second extension going off hook). They will add
- a second extension with the crapola exclusion device so only one
- extension can be on line at once. But if you put real phones (AT&T,
- GNT (Danish), Plessey (UK)) on the line, they will work like U.S.
- phones. The U.S. standard is that three 500 sets (standard rotary)
- can be off hook and working at once. Bugger the law, you are the
- customer, phones are for communication.
-
- By the way German line voltage is 60 Volts - U.S. voltage is
- 48.
-
- > Of course, it may be an attenuation problem since my PC is
- > about 10 meters away from the phone jack.
-
- I seriously doubt this, you probably have 5 Kilometers of 0.5
- mm wire between your modem jack and the Telecom CO (Exchange). Another
- 10 Meters of wire is not going to add any attenuation you can measure.
-
-
- Yours,
-
- Julian Macassey, julian@bongo.info.com N6ARE@K6VE.#SOCAL.CA.USA.NA
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