Celebrating open standards around the world

Posted Oct 15, 2016 4:47 UTC (Sat) by felixfix (subscriber, #242)
In reply to: Celebrating open standards around the world by Cyberax
Parent article: Celebrating open standards around the world

That's the wonderful thing about standards: there are so many to choose from.

Celebrating open standards around the world

Posted Oct 16, 2016 0:11 UTC (Sun) by gerdesj (subscriber, #5446) [Link] (2 responses)

On Friday I was whining about RJ11 to BT phone adapters - why on earth didn't British Telecom use RJ11 like everyone else? (I thought) [2]

Then I took a quick look at what other countries use for telephony connectors. Then I looked at what BT (formerly the General Post Office - GPO) used in the past. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPO_telephones for example, and feel free to shudder [1].

I stopped whining and bought some cheap RJ11 to BS 6312 connectors.

Hmmm, now to look into codecs ...

Cheers
Jon

[1] One of my employees is an ex BT bod and remembers
[2] Turns out a fair few places use BT's connectors - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_telephone_socket

Celebrating open standards around the world

Posted Oct 16, 2016 13:08 UTC (Sun) by ianmcc (subscriber, #88379) [Link] (1 responses)

You are lucky that you can do this yourself. In Australia, we don't have a 'demarcation point' at all; for anything involving equipment that can *potentially* be connected to the phone network, you are supposed to get a professional in to do the wiring. Yes, that means that any CAT5 etc home wiring is technically illegal here! You are supposed to have a licence to make your own network cables too, but I've never heard of that being enforced (certainly, the Chinese-made cables you buy in a store were not assembled by anyone with an ACMA license!).

Celebrating open standards around the world

Posted Oct 19, 2016 2:59 UTC (Wed) by k8to (guest, #15413) [Link]

It's like the pre-1980s US!

I like that we invented the acoustic-coupler modem so that computers could talk to the phone company with no electrons touching.