From: lan_kova@rcvie.co.at (Tom Kovar)
Subject: Re: How universal are phones these days?
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d9bertil@dtek.chalmers.se (Bertil Jonell) writes:
: In article <1rh22eINNfce@shelley.u.washington.edu> kniha@carson.u.washington.edu (Dagmar Amtmann) writes:
: >There is a wire without any jack at the end sticking out of the wall. So you
: >need to connect the wires (I'm not sure if they have wall jacks in Western
: >Europe - they may).
: 
:   Son of the Return of the "How much does Americans know about the rest of
: the word?"-flamewar anyone?

  Well, Bertil, you might laugh, but in many places here in Austria, there are
no wall jacks yet, either - just wires sticking out of the wall (and put into
a closed, often sealed, box) :-)
  As far as I remember from Germany, it is a nicely mixed situation - somebody
had wires sticking, somebody had jacks...
  On the other hand, everywhere in Bohemia I have seen wall jacks, and never
seen just wires sticking out of the wall... And I thought Slovakia was the
same case. Well...

  "How much do Scandinavians know about the rest of Europe?? :-))"

							Tom
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