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 yes it does all the equipment has to have that telekom approval number to be legal what has changed is that you can buy the equipment somewhere else i m pretty sure the same holds true in sweden at least when i read some information on it about tweo years ago and btw i do know that most of the lines in sweden can handle tone dialing just don t be sure that all can wolfgang diestelkamp wd cs tu berlin de wolfgang first gmd de
