BL> There was no enforceable legal requirement for telephones,
BL> let alone modems. As far as I know, the first legally
BL> approved modems came with Austel, years later.

PE> No, you're wrong there. People used to sell modems and say
PE> they are "Telecom approved". It was only recently (about
PE> 4 years ago) that it changed to being "Austel approved".

BL> I merely meant to put a time frame on it.

Pity you completely fucked it up. Again.

BL> Telecom fought a court case around 1988? where
BL> they lost the right to arbitrarily prevent imported
BL> telephones being connected to their telephone lines.

Poor senile old Bob. Soorree, they did nothing of the sort.

BL> I know because I was involved in it.

Sure, we believe you completely fucked the story up, you did so
much of that on TVs where you also were purportedly involved too.

AND Korean VCRs too. Poor old Bob, WAY past time for the gas chamber.

BL> One of my clients was stuck with a container-load of
BL> Taiwanese telephones. Telecom lost, and there was a
BL> period of years when Telecom approval was optional.

Bullshit there were. Poor old Bob.
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