Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!ria!uwovax.uwo.ca!telecom-request From: !carroll@ssc-vax.uucp (Jeff Carroll) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: I Take Issue With Moderator Buying Radio Shack Phones Message-ID: Date: 23 Mar 91 20:31:27 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Reply-To: Jeff Carroll Organization: Boeing Aerospace & Electronics Lines: 27 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 233, Message 10 of 12 In article rborow@bcm1a09.attmail.com writes: > Walk to Radio Shack and pick up a Touch-tone phone? I've never > been satisfied w/ anything less than a genuine Bell-made or AT&T-made > Touch-tone phone. I've had nothing but bad luck with those Radio > Shack, QT&T, etc. phones. Give me a REAL Touch-tone phone, with those > familiar beeps and boops, anyday. Who'd you think invented > "Touch-tone" anyway? Of course, it has fallen into everyday use, like > other corporate trademarks: xerox, etc. There is a whole continuum of telephone manufacturers these days, from AT&T (clearly out in front in terms of quality) to the kind of outfit that builds the football-shaped gizmos that Sports Illustrated gives away. IMHO Radio Shack phones are nearer the high end of the quality spectrum than the low end, especially the stuff that was built by Stromberg-Carlson (do they still stock them?) In fact, I have seen Radio Shack phones that were clearly of higher quality than some of the stuff marketed by the Baby Bells. All the phones at my house say "AT&T" on them, though. Jeff Carroll carroll@ssc-vax.boeing.com