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From: csc@watmath.waterloo.edu (Sean Goggin)
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Subject: Re: Two-Line Turnbutton Phones
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Date: 5 Dec 90 09:18:57 GMT
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>Is it possible to buy one of these phones? I assume it's a
>500-style...

>[Moderator's Note: ... I do not think they are selling the one
>button, two-line phones. In fact I am almost positive you can only
>lease them, and that you must be in the USA to do that.    PAT]

Bell Phonecentre (Canadian MaBell retail phone shop) has leased phones
and not leased phones. You can not buy phones they lease so they can
know if a phone is theirs.  All the leased and most of the sold phones
are Nortern Telecom and you can buy very similar NT phones as the
leased versions.


Sean
sean@watcsc.uwaterloo.ca