Japan's Telephone system

[Robert Brockway]

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Merv Curley wrote:

> Got a world traveller here?
>
> I am curious if anyone has experience using a North American dial up modem in
> Japan.  The wall plug is the same,  thats about all I know.

In some countries the specific model must be blessed by Telco standards 
agency before it is legal to use the device on the local phone network.

I can't speak for Japan but I personally never connect equipment that is 
not verified by the relevant local agency.  As I understand it, in the 
past phone networks were very sensitive to non-compliant devices (to the 
point that it was possible to damage the network by sending voltage spikes 
that the network was not designed to cope with).  I'm not sure how true 
this still is but many national laws can be quite tough on this point.

Yeah I'm being the voice of doom :)

Rob

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