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From: jimmy@icjapan.uucp (Jim Gottlieb)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Ground-Start, Anyone?
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Date: 13 Nov 89 05:26:06 GMT
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X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 507, message 3 of 8

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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