sashadan

will my uk answerphone work in oz.?

i imagine you're not allowed non oz stuff on oz lines,but can i buy an adapter phone plug?

cheers

ssd

ABCDiamond

I brought 2 over when I came, one worked, and one didn't.
Legally you are not allowed to use them unles the have the Australian approval sticker/mark.

sashadan

cheers

did u get an adapter for it??

dracupg

Unless it is a UK BT phone, you stand a good chance of it working just by replacing the phone cable with one bought from Tandy over here. The phones in Oz use pin 3&4 (the middle pins). In the UK, they use pin 2&5 (and one other pin I forget for the bell).

Anyway, most phone manufacturers distribute to more than one country, and don’t want them to be country specific. It is likely that the cable you have with your current answer machine have a special UK cable that reroutes pins 2&5 from your socket to pins 3&4 at the phone/answer machine. Replacing this cable with a straight through cable should let it work.

Connecting a UK phone to the Oz phone network is obviously illegal, and I do not condone this sort of behaviour in any way.

Don

Naturally...!

ABCDiamond

Yes, I did get an tel plug adapter, not sure why one worked and one didnt, though.

sashadan

cheers guys

Pollster

Does the same apply to NZ?