[net.nlang.india] Compatibility of phone equipment

swarup@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU (11/06/85)

  Does anyone out there know whether American phones (10 pulse/sec. rotary or
simulated rotary dialing ones) are compatible with the Indian telephone system?
In other words can I just walk into any shop, buy a phone and expect it to work
in India after the proper connections are made?


Vipin Swarup,
Dept. of Computer Science,
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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reddy@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU (11/09/85)

I suspect that using a U.S. phone in India would be illegal unless the
Indian equivalent of FCC licences it.

jayasim@uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU (11/14/85)

	Yes you can walk into any shop and buy a telephone which is compatible 
to the "Indian scene" as long as you go in for a rotary or a simulated push
button (i.e. which has push buttons but puts out rotary type pulses) telephone.
However, the present day phone outlets here and those in India are incompatible.
Hence, you should buy an interface (which is also available in any big store
(old houses here still have phone outlets like the ones in India)) for hooking
the phone to the outlet.

D.N.Jayasimha,
U of Illinois.