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You can use rotary US phones in the UK without any problems, even
if the specs may be a little different (I am happily using a 1932
UK phone here, it's only different in that it goes ting-a-linga-ling
when you rotary dial on another phone connected to the same line,
in the UK the anti-tinkle circuit is done by mutually excluding the
bells of both phones when either is off hook, -if you get my
meaning).

Forget DTMF, Britain never had and never will have it. I have only
once used a phone there which had DTMF and it was connected to a
hotel PBX. When the famous "System X" gets installed, the functionality
(including * and #) of DTMF will be provided, but digitally. The
advantages of being conservative and centrally regulated is that
one can occasionally skip a generation of development, which is 
excatly what is happening with DTMF and the UK.

Of course, using US phones on UK lines is illegal and I doubt very
much that you can get an individual instrument certified, since
this requires "destructive testing" (I am serious!), but I wouldn't
let that worry you. (You should pay your TV licence however or
they might come after you with the detector van! But for 50 pounds
or so you'll get the best TV programs the world has to offer including
news from other countries, sorry about the digression).


Ole
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