aurantia

Do UK telephone land line handsets work in Australia?
Assume UK telephones can be converted for use in Australia through changes to the hardware/ getting a new socket adaptor for the handset when I get there. Please can anyone advise on this thanks?

scrubbedexpat020

They are fine. May need a new cable if the house has the old socket 610 http://www.ji.com.au/telecomsplugs/

Chances are that it won't. Easy to get hold of. http://dicksmith.com.au/product/F212...5-rj12-plug-2m

DECT IP phones are cheaper in UK so worth buying if you intend to use VOIP for cheap calls. Plus, you can have a UK VOIP number so that rellies ring UK number to contact you.

Alfresco

Our Panasonic Dect phones work here.

quoll

It is, however, illegal to plug a telephone which doesnt have the Aussie tick of approval into the network http://www.acma.gov.au/WEB/STANDARD/pc=PC_1687

Sherlock Holmes

Now there's a surprise.

Obviously not built for Aussie conditions.

(P.S. I like it here, but some of the "standards" make the mind boggle.)

Sherlock Holmes

On a more serious note, having looked at telephones for sale on ebay, sellers state that for Oz they will make sure the phone is set to 10 pps (pulses per second apparantly). Wouldn't have a clue what the UK setting is.

That said, seems that other have brought their phone and they work okay.

scrubbedexpat020

Yes, that's correct.

scrubbedexpat020

Pulses is very old. Usually use dtmf nowadays. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-to...ency_signaling

James516

Also see the witty and entertaining thread from last year:

http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=660328

lonndongeek

What's the difference between this requirement and the requirement that anything you plug into a UK socket be BABT approved? Maybe phones complying with the latter need to be softened for UK conditions?

Cheers

LG

Amazulu

I think you will find that the UK has a similar setup

Amazulu

Get one of these from Maplin and they will work:
http://www.maplin.co.uk/bt-us-adapto...rdercode=RZ79L

Mine do

paulry

Our panasonics work fine here. Nothing additional needed

Amazulu

That's interesting as our Panasonics don't without the adaptor

paulry

They were quite new (bought roughly last August). I think two adaptors might have been in the box so it was a matter of just choosing the one that fitted and plugging it in.