Yeah it's quite similar to the Italian phone socket too.

Lets just hope they never visit a country that uses BS546 2Amp for its intended purpose and decide to plug in their laptop!

I'm not sure how modems handle 230V 50Hz [Linked Image]

Local telephone sockets are rapidly becoming a bit irrelevant anyway these days.

All phones, modems etc use RJ11 sockets these days and quite a lot of the world uses RJ11/12 sockets on the wall.

I notice Apple ships computers with an RJ11 lead and an adaptor for the area they're being shipped to.

Thankfully, Telecom Eireann adopted RJ11/12 outlets back in the 1970s when they decided to introduce modular sockets.

The BT system seems to be a blatent rip-off of it though [Linked Image] It's exactly the same design made slightly bigger, in white plastic and tweeked a bit.