Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Wed, 24 Apr 91 01:28 GMT From: Michael Dorrian <0003493915@mcimail.com> Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Comments on History of Telephone Apparatus Manufacturers Message-ID: Organization: TELECOM Digest Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu 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 302, Message 1 of 8 Lines: 27 Larry Lippman wonders about the status of COMDIAL, the old Stromberg Carlson entity .... Comdial is still alive and kicking in Charlottesville, VA., operating under the same name. As far as I know, Comdial remains the only US manufacturer of telephones (local content - AT&T's phones are assembled in the US from Asian manufactured components). This offers quite a niche on sales to the US government. Their products are often used as key system behind PBX or Centrex. I recollect that they won an anti-dumping suit (filed jointly with AT&T) against the Asian manufacturers. Uncertain of current status. Pacific Telecom (no - not PACBELL!) held a 45% interest at one point. Comdial trades Over The Counter and were in pretty tight straits two or three years ago. Recent {Washington Post} Virginia 30 had them at $80M in sales with 1K employees. Michael Dorrian The RTP Group Mid Atlantic Voice: 703-243-6000