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Date: Wed,  1 May 91 10:29:12 EDT
From: Daniel A Margolis <dam@mtqua.att.com>
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Subject: Re: Comments on History of Telephone Apparatus Manufacturers
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0003493915@mcimail.com (Michael Dorrian) writes:

> 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.

Actually, AT&T does manufacture telephones in the USA.  I know for a
fact that the telephones used with MERLIN communications systems (also
with System 25 PBXs) are manufactured in the USA (not just assembled).
Many of the residential phones are manufactured overseas, however.


Dan Margolis