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From: ben@moncol.UUCP (Bennett Broder)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Why has AT&T junked its good phones???
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Date: Mon, 20-May-85 11:05:43 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 20 11:05:43 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 20-May-85 19:14:48 EDT
Organization: Monmouth College, West Long Branch, NJ 07764
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Used to be that AT&T made good, high quality phones.  They had nice
pleasant bells instead of those irritating shrill ringers.  They had
heavy metal bases instead of plastic.  No more.  When I went to the
AT&T phone center to buy a new Trimline, I learned that they have been
replaced by the Trimline II.  What a piece of garbage.  The new phone
is lighter, has a totally cosmetic base (the wire from the jack passes
undisturbed through the bottom of the base onto the handset), an
electronic ringer and really junky feeling pushbuttons.  I suppose
AT&T decided that being cheaper is more profitable than being better.
Meanwhile, I hope word gets back to the powers that be that some
people want the kind of phone Western Electric made when AT&T was the
customer.  The kind that stand up to 30 years of abuse and are a
pleasure to use.  Leave the under $25 junk for the Orient.

Ben Broder
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