[comp.dcom.telecom] Ground-Start, Anyone?

jimmy@icjapan.uucp (Jim Gottlieb) (11/13/89)

Our company's voice processing equipment, just like most PBXs, works
better when using ground-start (as opposed to loop-start) lines.
Ground-start has the advantage of reducing glare and (of most
importance to us) providing positive disconnect supervision.

However, when I asked about getting ground-start lines here in Japan,
I was told that they do not exist.  I asked someone I know over at
Meisei Electric about this and he confirmed it and added that the U.S.
is the ONLY country that has ground-start.

Is this really true?

Jim Gottlieb 					Info Connections, Tokyo, Japan
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