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    I used to work for another company based in Ireland and did some work
    on modems. The Irish TOUCH-TONE phone system is compatible with the US 
    system. You would be hard-pressed to find a phone on sale in the US
    that does not have touch-tone capability. The dialing tones etc are
    compatible. I personally have used an  answering  machine I bought in
    the US in Ireland with no problems (except  finding a suitable AC
    adapter). I have many friends who worked in that company (a large US
    Multi-National (is that oxymoronic?)) who brought phones and answering
    machines from the US and used them in Ireland with no known
    difficulties. This includes portable phones (radio based, NOT cellular). 
    
    You may be in contravention of local laws when connecting a US made
    phone to the Irish phone network. However from my work experience I can say
    that you will not damage any Irish phone equipment by connecting
    equipment that is approved for use in the USA. The European telecoms
    laws are merely a form of protectionism.(no smiley!).
    
    The US and Ireland also use similar cellular technology, however you
    will need to have a make of phone that is approved for use by Telecom
    Eireann as you must connect to their network. So this is a little more
    tricky to do.
    
    The Irish phone system is not the same as the UK system, so all the
    above does not apply to the UK or any other country in Europe. Telecom
    Eireann made a good decision when they began to move to touch-tone
    technology in the late 70's to go with US compatiblity in order to be
    able to buy from the more cost-effective US market, for phones and
    exchange equipment.
    
    
    Joe.

    
    Thanks, that was indeed what I thought the situation was, but I needed
    to validated it.
    
    On the AC adapter; where did you find that as I am looking here in
    Boston for a 220- AC (14V ?) adapter; harder to find here.
    
    thanks.
    
    
    

    Generally phone stuff works off 9Volts DC everywhere. 14V is unusual
    (at least to me). The problem I had was the answering machine I had
    needed 500mA at 9V. Most adapters only go up to 300mA. I ended up
    getting a portable computer AC adapter which worked great and was very
    robust. However I got it in for nothing as a cosmetic reject (badly
    tarnished casing, hermetically sealed) from where I worked. They can be
    quite expensive (up to IR40). If you only require 300mA any shop that
    sells Nintendo/GameBoys etc will have such an adapter. Don't pay more
    than IR10 for it!.
    
    Joe.

    Diagem is the name of a shop located in Capel Street,Dublin and they
    specialise in phones and all the paraphanalia (sp) that goes with them.
    

    Do UK phones work in Ireland ?
    
    Do they require any modification (to phone plugs or settings etc.?)
    
    Thanks 
    
    F.

    
    NO mods needed
    
    Gareth

    thanks!

    re .6
    
    Which is more than can be said for this conference.  :-)

Feargal's question about UK phones in the US phone
topic just might have been misread by Gareth!

US phones work in Ireland with no mods (-:except up north:-).
UK phones don't (except up north).

    tell me more ??

    
    If I recall (previous notes) UK has a different standard wall-jack and
    and phone side conenction (non RJ-11 ?), for the connections.  The 
    physical phone unit will work, but its possible that you will have to 
    make a cable with both ends diff.
    
    just a guess

    Apologies,
              as suggested earlier I misread US for UK,
    
    sorry for the slip
    
    Rgds
    
    Gareth