[comp.dcom.telecom] AT&T Partner System: A Reasonable Choice?

olsen@xn.ll.mit.edu (05/05/91)

I'm looking for a simple key system for use in my home, and it looks
like the AT&T Partner will do most of what I want (especially, the
ability to work with ordinary single-line phones).

For me, the big plus for AT&T is that they have retail stores I can
just walk into.  The minuses are:

 - inability to use all the features from ordinary phones, and
 - price.

The retail prices from the AT&T phone store are: 

 - $400 for each Partner system module (2 outside lines, 6 extensions)
 - $160 for each Partner multi-line phone (needed to use the full
   functionality of the system)

My question is whether I'm likely to do much better with other systems
such as Panasonic, enough to make it worthwhile to hunt for someone
willing to sell them to me.

Thanks in advance for any help.