re how universal are phones these days in article apr utkvx utk edu iturriag utkvx utk edu mr y writes i am not quite so sure about the illegality of using a regular american phone on your home system i vaguely remember a few years ago when deutsche bundespost split into postdienst postbank and telekom there was some discussion about a new regulation i know that cordless or cellular phones still have to be approved by the telekom but does that hold true for regular phones in my areacode in germany frechen near koeln you can use touch tone dialing i assume however that most areas are still exclusively set to pulse dialing last time i checked jan the cologne areacode was still solely pulse dialing btw touch tone does become more common in germany bringin with it the flourishing of services in germany i just hope we ll all have isdn some time at an affordable price idle wishes 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 michael michael lemke astronomy ut austin texas michael io as utexas edu or utspan utadnx io michael span
