On Sun 04 Feb at 11:08 Paul Edwards (3:711/934.9) wrote to Arthur Marsh:

 PE> Aha, I just saw the Motorola Lifestyle for $475 in AUST_ADS.
 PE> So who is this Motorola mob?  Are they an Australian 
 PE> company? You said we had access to the designers.  Where 
 PE> are they located - Sydney?  And how?  Do they frequent 
 PE> a Motorola echo or what?  And when you say trouble-free, 
 PE> do you mean that from a BBS sysop point of view, who 
 PE> gets a large number of different modems calling?  BFN.  

The Lifestyle is one of the modems from the Motorola Informations Systems
Group (ISG). The designer I have spoken to (Les Brown) is in Canada, their
bbs is on the east coast of the USA, and homologation and manufacture takes
place in Hong Kong and Singapore.

Motorola ISG have an office in Sydney, and the modems are distributed by
Telesys Communications.

Occasionally Motorola people appear in comp.dcom.modems, but not in the
MOTOROLA_MODEMS echo. 

However, everyone from the folk at Telesys to the Les Brown are accesible
by internet email.

I haven't run a heavy test of people dialing in to the Lifestyles, but they
work well calling out to a large number of modems, including over
conditions such as long access lines.

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