Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!killer!vector!nobody From: zodiac!jshelton@ames.arc.nasa.gov (John L. Shelton) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: AT&T alleges dumping Message-ID: Date: 9 Jan 89 19:24:44 GMT Sender: chip@vector.UUCP Lines: 36 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@bu-cs.bu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 9, message 3 In article bovine!john@apple.com (John Higdon) writes: .......[portion deleted] ->They may be right. What sane person (other than some corporate ->mentality type) would by a Merlin over a Panasonic 1232? But just maybe ->they ought to consider how they might improve their product and lower ->the price. But then that wouldn't be the American way. Just ask the ->auto manufacturers. -> ->-- ->John Higdon ->john@bovine ..sun!{apple|cohesive|pacbell}!zygot!bovine!john I'll claim to be sane. For home use, I selected a merlin plus over 20+ other sytems, all but one of which was made overseas. (Teleconnect was the other US manufactured unit.) I picked AT&T for an electronic key system for a lot of reasons: 1. Best documentation 2. More features (that I wanted) than any other system) 3. 4/10 (line/station) configuration instead of 2/6 or 3/8 4. Wide range of instruments available, including standard phones 5. Printer option for logging system calls, dumping configuration. 6. Rugged design 7. 800 number for assistance 8. I know I can get spare parts, repair, etc in 1 yr, 3 yr, 5 yr. 9. I'll be able to upgrade software later. 10. The phones don't look like crap; I like having good styling. 11. When I get a bigger house ( ;-) ) I can upgrade to an 8/20 or 30/100 system I didn't realize that other companies were dumping, but it didn't make a difference to me; the AT&T product (in this case) was vastly superior. =John=