Re: USR Lowers Pricing
Kevin Smith (kevin@ascend.com)
Thu, 03 Apr 1997 17:03:49 -0800
At 05:52 PM 4/3/97 -0600, Jonah Yokubaitis wrote:
>On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Jordan Mendelson wrote:
>
>|
>|It looks as if USR has lowered prices CONSIDERABLY for their terminal
>|services. We just got quoted a price for a USR Total Control model with 48
>|modems + 2 pri for $14,352. This includes everything but a $250 fan.
>|That is about $295 per port.
>|
>|Now, I paid $11,000 for my PM3. It's a nice box, includes 2 PRI, but I
>|elected to only get 24 modems, but to upgrade to 48 modems it's going to
>|cost me $5,691 for a total cost of about $16,700.
>|
>|At the time we purchased the PM3, the USR was about $560/port. I guess
>|they are going all out to support x2. Is this the beginning of a price
>|war?
>
>USR is going for the balls. You can bet Ascend/cisco are in chaos
>right now.
Not me...ahsf##$iuif(*^bgdo$%23^!@98730tf0 ...Oops....that *was* chaos!
....what do they call it when you sell below cost....panic ?
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