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From: clear@actrix.co.nz (Charlie Lear)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: PEP -vs- MNP (Class 9)
Keywords: PEP
Message-ID: <1990Mar20.205335.17669@actrix.co.nz>
Date: 20 Mar 90 20:53:35 GMT
References: <897@lectroid.sw.stratus.com> <627@braaten.doit.sub.org>
Reply-To: clear@actrix.co.nz (Charlie Lear)
Organization: Actrix Public Access UNIX, Wellington, New Zealand
Lines: 25

In article <627@brt.sub.org> ed@braaten.doit.sub.org (Ed Braaten) writes:
>which has the Telekom's "certification"  is over 6000 DM.  You
>can buy the same modem (sans ROM/power supply changes) in an 
>"export-only" version for 2-3000 DM.

I have a similar beef.  Netcomm Australia has the agency for Telebits in
Australia and New Zealand.  The price for a T2000 (NOT 2500!) with a
Netcomm badge on it is NZD$6406 - that's USD$3811.57 for an
eighteen-month-old modem.

Is it any wonder that *NOBODY* outside big corporations in New Zealand
use Trailblazers?

If someone at Telebit reads this newsgroup (I'm sure they do) perhaps
they would care to comment on this topic.  I'm dead keen on buying a
T2500 for my newsfeed/BBS, after all I can get one for less than a
quarter of the price of a locally-supplied T2000 if I buy direct from
the States.  The trouble is, if I *DO* get one, virtually nobody will be
able to connect to me using PEP, since there's very few TB's in New
Zealand...
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