Path: utzoo!attcan!ncrcan!moegate!soley
From: soley@moegate.UUCP (Norman S. Soley)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: FEED FOR GERMANY
Message-ID: <425@moegate.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jun 89 18:01:54 GMT
References: <786@redsox.bsw.com> <114@utower.UUCP> <3631@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <767@ctisbv.UUCP>
Reply-To: soley@moegate.UUCP (Norman S. Soley)
Organization: Ontario Ministry of the Environment
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In article <767@ctisbv.UUCP> pim@ctisbv.UUCP (Pim Zandbergen) writes:
>In article <3631@ddsw1.MCS.COM> karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) writes:
>
>I guess that in this case there is another monopolistic organisation
>that will prevent this.  The German Bundespost does not allow Germans
>to use their own modems.  You can only rent their 1200 baud modems;
>connecting a Telebit to a German phone line ist verboten!
>
>Correct me if I am wrong.

Telebit says in their ad's that they are PTT certified for European Countries,
what this means for west Germany I don't know. 

I'm also told that the technology used by the Bundespost to check for 
modems can be gotten around fairly easily, I've heard two stories, leave a short
silence between picking up and sending carrier or only use the modem in answer
mode, they can only check outgoing calls. I also don't know if doing either of
these things is illegal. I remember back in the old days here it was
against the rules to put a modem on a line without getting permission from 
Bell, if you got caught Bell would refuse to perform service on the line until
the unit was removed, then charge you a whopping fee for their trouble, most
people, including a lot of Bell people though it was actually illegal.

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