My department at my employer uses plain 2500 style telephone sets
> under a Centrex system. I kind of assumed they were still common
> place, but I understand now that they're kind of unusual? I heard
> caller-ID is very common on business phones, is that true?
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Unfortunately everyone wants one button access to features and such and displays with caller ID, length of call, etc. so you're seeing less and less of the 2500-style phones on office desks these days.
One of the things I appreciated about the Executone IDS systems I used to maintain is that the "wave" desk phones had 2500-style keypads on them instead of the keypads found on the new business system phones (buttons wrong size, a 'mushy' feel to them, etc.). Nothing beats those old tried and true keypads.
J.P. Wing