SL>> You'd be disappointed to know that the Avtek Flashmodem is hardly
SL>> Australian. It's a rebadged Motorola Lifestyle, so most of your money
PS> I had heard it was basically a Motorola,  so I rang Netcomm.  They said
PS> said it's made in Australia,  and everything but the chips is Australian.
PS> I assume some of the money must have gone to Motorola as licence fees or
PS> something,  but surely not most of it?

The modem is a Motorola Lifestyle with an Avtek logo silk-screened onto it,
just as Banksia now sell Microcom modems with Banksia logos on them. The
PCB inside clearly indicates where it was made, as do the factory molding
date/time/location stamps on the inside of the casing.

The package doesn't say it's "made in Australia", it's
"manufactured in Australia". "Manufacturing" is a
technical term which means something quite different from the colloquial
meaning you assigned to it. I can't comment on Avtek/NetComm's other
models, but the FlashModem is NOT made in Australia in the sense you mean.

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