re how universal are phones these days wd cs tu berlin de wolfgang diestelkamp writes in article rg hinnsr darkstar ucsc edu hugo cats ucsc edu hugo calendar writes i m wondering if i can tote my american touch tone phone around with me to sweden and germany it s dc powered and i can buy a special adapter for that in europe the question is if the general electronics work the same i can buy a different wall plug and refit it i m sure i d have to but would that do the trick 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 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 this is just basicly right the connections that cannot handle touchtone dialing is very few i would estimate a couple of percents and if you are in a bigger town there is none that cannot handle tone dialing and regarding our swedish dialing system a rather screwd up system that does just apply to pulsdialing 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 joakim gunnarsson tde abacus hgs se
