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On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 19:38:08 +0800, "Rex Widerstrom"
<polemic@nospamthanksiprimus.com.au> wrote:

>Probably because the buttons are "round the wrong way".  This dates back to 
>the days of rotary phones... for some reason Britain reversed the order of 
>number on the dial from those of Australia and NZ (we were probably 
>slavishly following the US as usual, and Britain).
>
>The reason Britain's emergency number is 999 and Australia's 000 (and NZ's 
>111) is that those respective numbers needed the least rotation to dial and 
>could this be dialled quickest on a rotary phone (hope that makes sense!).
>
>Back in the 80's when a touchtone (DTMF) phone was still a major status 
>symbol, I imported a dial from the UK that dropped into the circular hole in 
>the front of a touchtone phone, replacing the rotary dial.  It too, didn't 
>work.
>
>Rather than rewire the PCB I took the face off, transposed the buttons and 
>screwed it back together:
>0 to 9
>1 to 8
>2 to 7... and so on.
>
>Might do the trick with your phone, if you can manage it.
>
>Good luck

 Sounds Enigma-ish!  :-)

My problem is even before that stage.... I get no dial tone when I plug
the darned things in to the wall socket (having plugged via the right
shape changing adapters....).

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