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In article <553048485wnr@bogart.demon.co.uk>, Carl Warnell
<boz@bogart.demon.co.uk> writes
>In article: <6hTzRfATCV7yEw93@esox.demon.co.uk>  Ross Lewis 
><Ross@esox.demon.co.uk> writes:
>
>> If USR wish to retain market share they MUST enable all users of the
>> Sportster Voice to upgrade to X2 technology.
>> 
>> This is one of the reasons why customers pay a premium price for the 
>USR
>> equipment.
>
>But less than the price of a Courier to the tune of about 40 quid.
>
The Courier is a different modem and I expect was developed to serve a
different marketplace (commercial). As the advertising goes, the
Sportster appears to be sold to home and maybe small office users.
As I fit into the home user category I do not feel that the Courier is
particularly relevant and although I do accept your point, it still does
not explain the vast difference between US and non USR prices.

>> The question is, do USR want people to flog their obsolete Sportster
>> Voice 33.6k modems and buy the X2 upgradeable model made just months
>> later ?
>
>Yes. If you want futureproof you're supposed to shell out the extra 40 
>quid for a Courier, for which the only difference is essentially the 
>Flash EPROM.
>
>You say you want a 56K upgrade because you've spent more than the 100 
>quid that you could have got a cheap modem for, but what of those of us
>who spent more than *you* to get an upgradable one (my Courier was about 
>270 quid when I got it)? Don't you think the Courier owners will be 
>equally displeased when they find they could have got away with a cheap 
>Sporster that's *also* upgradable to 56K?
>
>Try thinking outside your own existence, eh?
>
Your points have merely covered how USR may have moved so quickly with
their Sportster range that the spec has caught up in some ways with the
Courier. This may reflect the significant growth area of the home user
marketplace and USR appearing to capitalise on such an opportunity.

Your feelings about the current standing of the Courier is another issue
that has nothing whatsoever to do with the Sportster Voice 33.6k modem.

I believe that the Courier is flash upgradeable and does it also have
ISDN capability ?

I have only owned my modem for a few months so when the spec jumps to X2
technology it is natural after only a short time to want to see that I
can also have that upgradability (after all, I will be purchasing the
upgrade from USR won't I).

As for thinking outside my own existence ?
Do you really think that this issue will only concern me ?

eh ?

Cheers
Ross
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Ross Lewis