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From: edhall@rand.org (Ed Hall)
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Subject: Re: Hayes announces Ultra 144 and V.32bis upgrade
Message-ID: <1991Jun25.155944.11105@rand.org>
Date: 25 Jun 91 15:59:44 GMT
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In article <1991Jun25.025544.6882@shaman.com> jiro@shaman.com (Jiro Nakamura) writes:
>    Well, for all those people who were flaming Telebit for having an
>"expensive" upgrade to v32bis with their T1600's, seems like Hayes has
>approximately the same pricing with their upgrade.
>   Actually I think $250~ for an upgrade to double the speed isn't too
>bad.

It's only a 50% increase in speed.  So I guess in some simple-minded
way, a ~50% increase in price makes sense.  Except that it ignores
the existance of cheaper, high-quality alternatives, such as USR.
Hayes can, no doubt, get away with this, based on their brand name.
Telebit thinks they can play this game, too.  We shall see...

		-Ed Hall
		edhall@rand.org