Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!apple!agate!telecom-request From: contact!ndallen@eecs.nwu.edu (Nigel Allen) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: I Take Issue With Moderator Buying Radio Shack Phones Message-ID: Date: 26 Mar 91 22:14:00 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: 52 Manchester Avenue Lines: 16 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 243, Message 7 of 14 Several posters have referred to some modern residential telephones, manufactured by AT&T and other companies, as "lightweight". Northern Telecom's Harmony telephone set, which Bell Canada and some other companies rent but do not sell, is a modern electronic telephone set. The working parts and plastic shell do not weigh very much, and apparently Northern Telecom's market research with prototypes of the phone showed that consumers equated low weight with low quality. And *that's* why there are lead weights in a Harmony telephone. People who want a heavy telephone will find that manufacturers will address that demand, but perhaps in an unexpected way. Nigel Allen ndallen@contact.uucp