Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: John Higdon Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: AT&T Behind Blocking of Japanese Business Phone Systems? Message-ID: <3720@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 9 Feb 90 07:11:59 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: John Higdon Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 31 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 90, message 1 of 9 Karl Denninger writes: > Who's behind this complaint? Is it AT&T? Does anyone know, factually, > who started this nonsense? You bet it's AT&T. This was in the news a few months ago. There was quite a flame fest here in the Digest over it. Specifically, AT&T claims that the Panasonic 308, 616, and 1232 systems are being dumped here and asked for governmental relief, which was granted. They found it quite difficult to sell their grossly overpriced Merlins against those clever little hybrids. (I have a 1232 in my home -- it's great.) I pointed out in one article that the charge of dumping is laughable. The Panasonic systems were specifically designed and engineered for the US telecom market and are sold nowhere else in the world. They are not even sold in Japan. So how can they be dumping? If they are selling below cost, why would they bother? > Why can't American companies decide to compete by providing a better > product and service, instead of slapping input duties on things..... > it's beyond me. Watch the Digest; I'm sure AT&T employees will come out of the woodwork to tell us how the big bad Japanese are cheating against the poor downtrodden AT&T. John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@bovine.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !