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From: tas@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Thomas A. Spraggins)
Subject: Re: How universal are phones these days?
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In article <WD.93Apr26122020@sam.cs.tu-berlin.de> wd@cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolfgang Diestelkamp) writes:
>Otherwise, it is technically no problem to connect a foreign
>phone to either the German or Swedish phone system.
>OTOH neither you nor I would ever try that, as it is of course
>illegal.

Oh yes, the good ol' deutsche Bundespost.  Shortly after moving to Germany,
someone told me that "POST" is an acronym for the "Public Organization for
the Suppression of Technology".  Stimmt, oder?

I miss a lot of things about Germany (yes, including the Bier vending
machines at work that were SUBSIDIZED by the firm), but the phone system
is not one of them.

Tom Spraggins
tas@virginia.edu
