[wellylug] Telepermits (was kernel Info)

[Phillip Hutchings]

> I smell Telecom bs.

Of course it is! TelstraClear don't require any certification that I've 
noticed in the ToS, but if the device doesn't have a TelePermit sticker 
you can't (read shouldn't) plug it in to Telecom's network. Part of 
this stems from the fact the NZ's pulse dialling was backwards - a 
phone from UK/Europe/America has the 1 first, the 9 last, in NZ it was 
9 first, 1 last, hence 999 in the UK and 111 in NZ. I had a modem once 
(telepermitted!) that had to be dialled 'backwards', eg 0123 would be 
9876. Touchtone solved all this though ;)

Here's what Telecom claim: http://www.telepermit.co.nz/About%20PTC.html

> For the record, and lest any Telecom stooges are on the list, I have
> an external Dynalink modem with a pretty Telepermit on the rear, and
> an internal Conexant which is likewise stickered.  Fully compliant
> here, though both modems have their faults.

Likewise. Both my telephones are telepermitted, complete with stickers! 
I don't think my modem has a sticker, but it's not physically 
accessible (iMac :P), it is, however, telepermitted. I've never bought 
any phone overseas, not much point...

> Out of interest, Peter, is the certification process horrendously
> costly?  I presume that if we got enough people together we could get
> a modem permitted?

Last I heard it was a few thousand... http://www.telepermit.co.nz/
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Phillip Hutchings
sitharus at sitharus.com
http://www.sitharus.com/