Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: john@bovine.ati.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: AT&T Multi-line Cordless Telephones Message-ID: <2020@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 10 Dec 89 06:43:52 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: John Higdon Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 29 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 566, message 7 of 10 Don H Kemp writes: > NEW YORK -- AT&T today announced the first multi-line cordless > telephone for business. > [huge list of features offering little more than a Panasonic > cordless phone connected to a single-line port on a KX-T123211, deleted] > Suggested > prices are $485 with an AT&T telephone system purchase and $560 when > purchased alone. One-year warranty and standard one-, two- and > four-year maintenance contracts apply. I see AT&T's interpretation of "fair market value" comes to light once again. I have a KXT3900 cordless connected to a single-line port on my 1232. I can answer any line, place a call on any line, answer any ringing extension, answer and call my [homemade] doorphone, conference calls, receive second call indication at the handset, access speed dial, have system last-number-redial, park and retrieve calls, and access internal and external paging. The phone itself scans the 10 channels for a vacant one when you go off hook and allows the user to change channels should one become unusable during the conversation. The price for all this? I paid $149.95. That's nearly 400% less than AT&T's remarkable breakthrough. It also has a one-year warranty, but I'm not stupid enough to get a maintenance contract. You see, it (unlike what I've heard about Merlin) won't need it. John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@bovine.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !