Symantec, manufacturer of Norton Antivirus and other system tools, has started to implement a product activation routine into their software, to prevent illegal copies of their software. (We reported)
After some research from Warp2Search about the activation, to learn if people can also activate the software via phone or only via the internet, we got an internal information from a Symantec Germany employee, that the activation will only be necessary for the north american market.

If you can activate the software via phone, is not answered yet.