What makes your phones better?

For about a hundred years, people rented phones from their local phone companies.

Most Americans were served by ATT-owned phone companies, and rented phones that were made by ATT. Many others were served by GTE-owned phone companies, and rented phones made by GTE. A phone's rental fee included on-premises repairs. And since the same company that made the phone, was obligated to send out a man in a truck to fix it; rental phones were designed to go 15 years without service. In fact, some phones made 50 years ago still work fine.

Everything changed when phones became "consumer products" around 1980. Competitive pressure, short warranties, and the elimination of on-premises service, led to lower quality. Some manufacturers were content to make $1.99 "throw-away," phones that sounded lousy, got frequent wrong numbers, and lasted barely 365 days. ►A throw-away phone might be OK for a child's room, but is inappropriate, inadequate and dangerous for "mission-critical" applications, where a wrong number or misunderstood syllable could mean disappointment, delay or even death.

The Asimitel phones on this website are built in the spirit of the old rental phones, with sturdy ABS housings, zinc-plated steel bases, mil-spec soldering, careful inspection and testing, and hookswitches and touchtone pads designed to work reliably for decades, even in hostile environments where lesser phones fail. Not only are they as good as the phones "the phone company" used to make, they're better!

Our company has supplied phones for fire departments, military bases, schools, hospitals, airports and the White House. We recognize how important telephones are, and we sell only top quality products.