In this small island off the coast of Europe, your're supposed
to get BABT approval for your device *before* connecting it to
the phone line.  This rule is, needless to say, widely ignored.

>Kalle had an valid comment on approval to hook things to the
>phone lines.  I'm not 100% sure on this, but it seems to me
>that if you build something yourself (such as CID) for yourself
>and as long as you follow good engineering and construction
>practices, you don't have a problem tying it to the phone line
>(unless telco comes a knockin').  If you want a production item,
>then approval is necessary.  Perhaps Andrew Warren can verify this
>(I picked on him, because he seems to know quite a bit about alot
>of things).  However, you can buy a pre-qualified module with the
>telco interface.  Is it CerTek that has these things ?  They are
>out there, somewhere around $20 or so.  Not sure about the name.
>
>
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