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#311459 17-Jan-2024 12:21
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Can anyone explain this?

Does it look at the REN and if too high , block the phone?

https://www.trademe.co.nz/computers/other/auction-4520173645.htm 


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  #3183066 17-Jan-2024 12:31
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Nope, you'd just chop into the cable in the street, use the line then patch it back up again

 

 





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  #3183067 17-Jan-2024 12:36
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coffeebaron:

 

Nope, you'd just chop into the cable in the street, use the line then patch it back up again

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gotta be about a million easier ways to make free calls overseas than actually physically tapping a line these days.





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  #3183069 17-Jan-2024 12:43
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Useful that it has that extra socket for your fax machine



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  #3183070 17-Jan-2024 12:45
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Probably just shows if the line is active or not with the LED indicators

I recall a phone bug that worked where once installed, you could listen in to a room by calling the number of the phone line with one ring, hanging up and calling again. The bug would suppress the first ring or two from ringing the phone then answer your second call. If you then whistled down the line it’d open up the microphone.

The device advertised on trademe would show if your line was active.




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  #3183110 17-Jan-2024 13:46
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Does it work with VoIP ?

 

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  #3183651 18-Jan-2024 19:36
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coffeebaron:

 

Nope, you'd just chop into the cable in the street, use the line then patch it back up again

 

 

Wasnt a telecom tech caught doing exactly that (more or less) , way back in the day .
I remember something about it in the news 


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  #3183663 18-Jan-2024 20:16
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I'm intrigued by the logo.


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Telecommunications  Museum piece?


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