Ed_Greenberg@3mail.3com.com (12/04/90)
The Moderator (or anybody else) should be able to buy one of these
from any telecom vendor. (I don't mean Hello Direct but rather a
supplier like North.)
It might also be interesting to contact AT&T and ask if you can buy
out the lease and what it would cost.
One question, Patrick, weren't you offered the option to buy this set
during divestature?
-edg
[Moderator's Note: No. I wish I was ... but the two-line, one-button
phones were specifically *not* for sale during divestiture. They were
then categorized as PBX equipment even though they were frequently
used in homes instead of business places. And to this day, they are
one type of phone the AT&T Phone Stores cannot help you with, other
than to act as a depot to turn in broken sets or take them off lease.
If I want to replace the one I have, I must call AT&T Consumer
Products, and they ship out a new one by United Parcel Service the
same day. I give the one going back to the UPS driver at the time the
new one arrives in a carton the driver has for that purpose. PAT]djb@mailer.cc.fsu.edu (David Brightbill) (12/05/90)
Two line turnbutton phones are available from Graybar. The part number is 2575**-MBA-60M. A color code goes in the ** space. The phones are made by ITT. The catalog description is: "The 2-line model (2575) includes manual hold and a turn-and-push key for line selection and signaling."
berger@iboga.stat.uiuc.edu (Mike Berger) (12/06/90)
>[Moderator's Note: No. I wish I was ... but the two-line, one-button >phones were specifically *not* for sale during divestiture. They were >then categorized as PBX equipment even though they were frequently Illinois Bell was willing to sell me mine - a wall model - for $ 55. Mike Berger Department of Statistics, University of Illinois AT&TNET 217-244-6067 Internet berger@atropa.stat.uiuc.edu [Moderator's Note: At the time of divestiture, although Illinois Bell was selling some phones, they told me the two-line turnbutton phones were being 'taken over' by AT&T for some reason. AT&T has been sending me the bill ever since. The funny thing is, about three months into divestiture, I had to have it repaired. We were still being told to call 'repair service' at the time for phone repairs. A guy came over from the IBT stockroom at 1212 Carmen St. (the Edgewater CO) and brought me a reconditioned phone. I asked him how come, since it was supposedly AT&T now ... he said they had not yet completed the transfer of inventory ... and that he worked for AT&T but was still physically located in an IBT building. PAT]