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From: jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Telebit and V.32bis
Message-ID: <1991Jun22.174331.13462@jpradley.jpr.com>
Date: 22 Jun 91 17:43:31 GMT
References: <1991Jun1.063101.3896@netcom.COM> <1991Jun02.231341.3315@nstar.rn.com> <98879@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>
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In article <98879@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> casey@gauss.llnl.gov (Casey Leedom) writes:
> ...
>  On the other hand, we have a hell of a lot of Telebit products here
>from previous purchases and we had to threaten to sell off all our
>Telebit products and move to a completely new modem vendor before Telebit
>would even *start* talking to us about their plans for future products
>and then all we got was an assurance that, yes, they were planning a
>V.32bis product sometime and that an upgrade would be available for the
>T2500 for some price.  Literally.  That's all we got.
> ...
>  Thus, I'm stuck in the state of not knowing just what to do ...  Since
>I'm still not hearing anything from Telebit about specifics of T2500
>upgrades and since the US Robotics modems work *SO* well and since
>they're a heck of a lot cheaper, I'm probably going to sell off all of
>our Telebit modems to other groups at our site and buy US Robotics modems.
>Oh well.
> ...
>  Don't get me wrong, I *have* liked Telebit products in the past.  But
>one of the *PRIMARY* reasons was because of their upgrade path policies.
>With scarce or no input from them, I have no options with regard to
>planning our group's data communications needs.  And I just don't
>understand this.  I mean, *WE'RE A BIG TELEBIT SITE*.  Just how big do
>you have to get to rate special service?
> ...

A couple of nights ago, Telebit was both demonstrating products and making a
technical presentation at a meeting of Unigroup of NY. The v32.bis upgrade
question came up, of course, and I did hear, from the mouths of TB folk, that
there would probably be an upgrade for about $249.00. Whether that's an
indiscretion, or just informed speculation on these guys' part, I can't say.

Jean-Pierre Radley   Unix in NYC   jpr@jpr.com   jpradley!jpr   CIS: 72160,1341