re how universal are phones these days in article apr chpc utexas edu michael chpc utexas edu writes does this imply the german tone dialing is compatible with the american one i know at least the british system is not it is supposedly close enough though that an american phone will work but my modem american has a special setting for british standards bzzzzzt wrong answer the uk tone dialling is identical to the us system the different settings on your modem are so that it uses ccitt v v tones for data transmission rather than bell bell tones which are used only in the usa and canada afaik as most people now use at least v bis this is largely irrelevant tony tony kidson pgp key by request voice morgan towers the cat has had to move now e mail in order morgan road as i ve had to take the top tony morgan demon co uk bromley off of the machine tny cix compulink co uk england br qe honda st dod compuserve com
