Re: Typical Business Telephone Sets Today?

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

I wonder if they are even available anymore since Intertel bought them out.

I know they do make cards that let you use them > [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Even in the case of Centrex it is very

rare that telco provides an _actual wire pair to the outside_ for > every phone thus equipped.

I think you misunderstood my use of the word "outside". By "outside", I meant "leaving the cusomers property" - IE: going back to the CO, where the centrex switch is. I did not mean a connection to the PTSN for each keyset.

And of course they charge for each centrex line going back to the CO. Out here SBC has pitched us about 35 a month for centrex 1100, about

15 a month for centrex 3100. They can't seem to get it thru their brains that $0 a month for PBX connections that we oiwn outright is a better deal.

Remember that 'centrex' means that telco has your 'PBX' on its > premises rather than in your office. Otherwise calls in or out are > handled about the same way and with the same rules in place. PAT]

EXACTLY. I knew that -- I think my choice of the word "outside" was a mistake. To me, the lines going to the centrex switch at the CO are "outside lines" - they leave the building, and you pay every month for them. Which is why it is such a bad deal for places such as us, where capital expenditure money is much easier to come up with than operating cash.

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