Comments on: The sad life of an old Nortel phone system http://www.thetelecomblog.com/2009/09/30/the-sad-life-of-an-old-nortel-phone-system/ Telecom news, thoughts, analysis and provocative opinion Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:59:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Jeff Wiener http://www.thetelecomblog.com/2009/09/30/the-sad-life-of-an-old-nortel-phone-system/comment-page-1/#comment-469 Jeff Wiener Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:07:50 +0000 http://www.thetelecomblog.com/?p=1046#comment-469 but it won’t be because it was a bad product. Kim, you are absolutely right. Norstar was the best phone system in the market. Jeff but it won’t be because it was a bad product.

Kim, you are absolutely right. Norstar was the best phone system in the market.

Jeff

]]> By: (Mr) Kim Chaisson http://www.thetelecomblog.com/2009/09/30/the-sad-life-of-an-old-nortel-phone-system/comment-page-1/#comment-468 (Mr) Kim Chaisson Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:54:33 +0000 http://www.thetelecomblog.com/?p=1046#comment-468 Reading your Nostar sets post with keen interest. I have pet peeve for seeing all that cast-off plastic and technology laying in discard bins. Having a large installed fleet, I engage regularly in the local rebuild market. Picked up in person, rebuilt with all replacement parts needed, fully tested and delivered back to my loading dock, for about $75 CDN / set. A caveat is don't try it with the T- series phones, they're not tough enough to make it to rebuild shop. Yes, out-of-date KSU's eventually wind up as shredded plastic and picked over circuit boards, but not before we get our 10 million minutes out of them. ( about 20 years of use). Dwindling supply for parts and salvage units will eventually kill off Norstar all together, but it won't be because it was a bad product. Reading your Nostar sets post with keen interest. I have pet peeve for seeing all that cast-off plastic and technology laying in discard bins. Having a large installed fleet, I engage regularly in the local rebuild market. Picked up in person, rebuilt with all replacement parts needed, fully tested and delivered back to my loading dock, for about $75 CDN / set. A caveat is don’t try it with the T- series phones, they’re not tough enough to make it to rebuild shop.
Yes, out-of-date KSU’s eventually wind up as shredded plastic and picked over circuit boards, but not before we get our 10 million minutes out of them. ( about 20 years of use). Dwindling supply for parts and salvage units will eventually kill off Norstar all together, but it won’t be because it was a bad product.

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