From: abjoern@idt.unit.no (Anders Bjoernestad)
Subject: Re: How universal are phones these days?
Reply-To: abjoern@idt.unit.no (Anders Bjoernestad)
Organization: Div. of CS & Telematics, Norwegian Institute of Technology
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In article <1rgka2$n4k@corax.udac.uu.se>, tde9106@hgs.se (Joakim Gunnarsson) writes:
|> 
|> >Two things to watch for:
|> >In Germany (and I think the same holds for Sweden) only some
|> >of the connections can handle tone dialing, so make sure the
|> >phone can be set to pulse dialing.
|> >In Sweden, the '0' is the first digit and all other digits
|> >are pushed "down" by one position; this makes dialing (and
|> >in the process converting numbers) an interesting task.
|> 

I think all connections in Norway can handle touchtone dialing.

|> Not to touchtone.
|> Btw; Norway is even more interesting. They got both system! So you need different phones depending on where in the country you live.
|> 
The Oslo-region has one system, the rest of the country another system.

|> So you need different phones depending on where in the country you
|> live.
(Almost right for pulsdialing.)
Some phones have a little switch inside, so you are able to use them
all over Norway, or you can just renumber the numbers on your phone.



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Anders Bj{\o}rnestad
Division of Computer Science and Telematics
Norwegian Inst. of Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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