I think Pana did great with the TDA series and the backwards compatability to older model telephones. My customers who bought earlier Panasonic love this, as they do not have to discard the entire system.
Now look at Tie, Nitsuko, NEC and many others. How often is the only answer for older systems "sorry, you have to replace everything". I have boxes full of Nortel systems from Panasonic replacements. Someone dropped by 10 M7xxx series telephones last week hoping they could be used for some charity group. We quoted a Panasonic against a BCM50 - it seems like you have to license everything on the BCM. PRI qty was licenced - Pana was full. BCM50 was approx 80% more in the quoted configuration. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 2:15 PM To: kxt@kxthelp.com Subject: KX-T: KX-TD parts. In a message dated 4/9/2006 3:19:34 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In EU, the parts for KX-TD816 / 1232 are definitive out. Only parts as KX-T7533 phones are available. Pana did a broadcast for aprox. ¾ year ago that both types(parts for PBX´s) are going out of production including parts (even spareparts!) Well, the reason is clear, they want us to sell the TDA-products even for the little customer who wants to extend with a extra CO-line. Well result is, Pana is loosing marketposition on this issue, had several customers who did buy another, cheaper product, as a direct result of this. When I spoke to a high level exec at pana last week he said that they have a shortage of parts to make several of the older products i.e. 7400 series phones. This is because the government is requiring not using the parts with lead/Mercury pollution within 2 years and pana has met the deadline much sooner. They are required by law to make spare replacement parts and phones available for 7 years after a product is discontinued. IF not they will be open for a class action lawsuit. It's the law. Now if they can only create a multi cell solution for the KX-TA824 ahead of schedule! _________________________________________________________________ KX-T Mailing list --- http://kxthelp.com/ Subscription changes: http://kxthelp.com/mailman/listinfo/kxt
