Bannon Posted December 26, 2004 Share Posted December 26, 2004 This must have been asked b4 but I cannot find anything on an archive search. Will a phone bought in the UK work in France and /or will I need a special connection? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gyn_Paul Posted December 26, 2004 Share Posted December 26, 2004 Some will, some won't... buy a phone cable in your local supermarket (ugly French plug on one end, little square US plug on the other) and try it. The UK system requires the phone connected on pins 2 and 5 and a derived ring tone on pin three of the cable. French phones only require the 2 wires: the ring tone being generated internally. Some newer phones on sale in the UK have this bit of electronics built-in, others don't. you really won't know until you try it. Worth a try if you like the UK phone, but, really, they're not expensive here in France.If you plug the phone in with its new cable and it rings continuously, swop over the two wires in the phone which would have been the '2' and the '5' on the original plug and cable.paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pucette<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Pucette<FONT><P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">"Qui ne connaît pas la campagne lhiver, ne connaît pas la campagne et ne connaît pas Posted December 26, 2004 Share Posted December 26, 2004 I've cut off the UK plug and wired on a French one without any problems several times over the last dozen years; ignorance was bliss! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abbaye Posted January 1, 2005 Share Posted January 1, 2005 Our UK phone/fax works over here in France but it wont ring and therefore you cant receive incoming faxes or know when someone is ringing you ... obviously not much good! I have just found out that you can get "ringing enablers" which are adaptors, no doubt some company charges a fortune for some simple piece of equipment, anyone know where to get one?Thanks.Mandy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Trollope Posted January 1, 2005 Share Posted January 1, 2005 [quote]Our UK phone/fax works over here in France but it wont ring and therefore you cant receive incoming faxes or know when someone is ringing you ... obviously not much good! I have just found out that y...[/quote]All you need is a UK MASTER (must be a master) socket - available anywhere like B&Q in the UK. Wire the French telephone line to connections 2&5 (either way around) in the UK master socket, plug your fax into the socket & lo&behold.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jorja Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 hiwe moved here a couple of months ago and brought a set of 3 cordless phones with us. they work fine inc the answerphone. we just use a UK adaptor to plug them in to the electricity supply (for charging) and a conector phone point that was bought from a french supermarket (carrefour).jorja Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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