[comp.dcom.telecom] Home Phone Recommendations

Mike.Riddle@iugate.unomaha.edu (Mike Riddle) (02/15/91)

I've been looking for something resembling a key system for home use.
"The successful candidate will" support two lines and up to six
phones, contain a dial-intercom, support speaker-phone paging or
operation, and ideally not require me to pull new cable.  This means
it should work on three pair (six wires) or less.

DAK had a closeout on GTE "Wolfpack", but if it's closing out, and I
could just see Higdon commenting about GTE....

AT&T (another Higdon favorite) has something called System 2000.  The
sets are called 2052 and 2022.  They require 110VAC, and from what I
can tell need only the two pair for the trunks.  This means that they
must do some fancy phantom circuits or multiplexing, right?

The cost per unit seems high (219 - master, 179-slaves), but then
again, it's not 2000 for a key system.

Except: there must be small key systems out there, and if the price is
right I'll break down and pull wire.  Does anyone have specific
recommendations?

Email is fine:  mike.riddle%inns@iugate.unomaha.edu,
                riddle@hoss.unl.edu, or
                sysop @ 1:285/27@fidonet.

Thanks.