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From: larry@nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Telebit Announcement of V.32 bis for T-1600
Message-ID: <1991Jun23.122514.27945@nstar.rn.com>
Date: 23 Jun 91 12:25:14 GMT
References: <9106210703.AA23753@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <1991Jun22.232131.29080@rand.org>
Organization: NSTAR, Indiana's BBS 219-289-0287/317-251-7391
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edhall@rand.org (Ed Hall) writes:

>In article <9106210703.AA23753@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> petty@ralvm31.vnet.ibm.com ("Jack Petty") writes:
>>This will probably be of interest.  I have deleted some boilerplate.
>=>              .       .       .       .       .       .
>=>             This policy will allow any new or existing T1600 customer to
>=>       upgrade from the V.32 standard speed of 9,600 bps to the 14,400 bps
>=>       capability provided by V.32bis.  The T1600 upgrade price will be
>=>       $249.

>Interesting; that's almost half what I paid for my T1600 in the first
>place; $545+$249=$794, which is quite a bit more than, say, a USR
>V.32bis modem ($595 or so).  I'll be quite interested to see how the
>two compare in performance.

I would venture them to perform quite close..  The T1600 is more
expensive, and Telebit in the past (at least with my dealings) have
been friendly on the phone, but on the other hand they wanted to charge
me for firmware upgrades - while USR has ALWAYS provided me FREE
firmware upgrades.  Both companies have 800 support.  Let's face it,
since USR has been shipping v.32bis now for 8 months - they have most
of the bugs worked out - where as telebit is just jumping on the bandwagon.

Will telebit be raising the retail price of the T1600 when v.32bis
is included?
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      Larry Snyder, NSTAR Public Access Unix 219-289-0287/317-251-7391
                         HST/PEP/V.32/v.32bis/v.42bis 
                        regional UUCP mapping coordinator 
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