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From: peter@micromuse.co.uk (Peter Galbavy)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Dowty vs Trailblazer
Message-ID: <1991Feb15.092120.28925@micromuse.co.uk>
Date: 15 Feb 91 09:21:20 GMT
References: <1991Feb11.162658.20202@tabbs.UUCP> <1991Feb13.154145.4473@robobar.co.uk>
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In article <1991Feb13.154145.4473@robobar.co.uk> ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo) writes:
>the British PTT regulations are.  E.g. no more than 5 failed calls
>to any one number in 4 hours (or something like that) and no more than
>a dozen or so of such "blacklisted" numbers allowed before the modem
>curls up and needs to be powered on and off again.  Bloody ridiculous.
>Also, they have a bunch of illiterate monkeys who write their manuals.

IMO - totally pointless, just gives agravation. (sp?)

>But other than that, they're normal Telebits and work as usual.
>There's one on my desk.  It's illegal to use a non-Dowty Telebit
>in the UK as it won't have a PTT approval sticker on its bottom.
>(Doesn't stop them working though, I'm told :-)

Oh, what makes you say that ? ;-)

>
>Oh, and the markup is pretty gross as well.

Wrong words - sick would be closer. You could (if it were not for BABT
approval problems) bring them in at almost retail and still make a
sick margin to beat Dowty on price. Off the top of my head - they now
have the T2500 equivalent available at 1400 pounds (about $US 2800 now
!). That's sick.

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