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When we first opened our
doors in 1988, all manufacturers and re-manufacturers of
terminal device equipment (telephones) were required to register
with the FCC under the guidelines of Part 68 of FCC regulations.
Indeed, several of our larger customers --- such as
GTE, Pacific Bell and Contel --- required us to become a grantee of the
FCC's Equipment Authorization System before they
would utilize our repair & refurbishing (i.e., re-manufacturing)
services. At that time and through 1998, anyone who manufactured,
re-remanufactured, imported or marketed telephone equipment in
the United States and was not registered under Part 68 of the
FCC regulations was out of compliance.
After
considerable deregulation in the late 1990's, FCC registration is no longer required to remanufacture
or market
telephone equipment. However, our status as a grantee remains to
this day (click here for
links to our
listings on the FCC's website), and serves as an indicator of our high
professional standards and diligence in complying with
government regulations.
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Remember
Aesop's fable about The Fox and the
Grapes? A hungry fox, upon failing to find a
way to reach grapes hanging high
up on a vine, retreated with a sneer
and said: "I'm sure the
grapes are sour anyway!" This is where
we get our phrase "sour grapes". The moral of the story
is:
It is easy to
despise what you cannot get. |
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And so it is with an occasional
competitor of ours who dismisses our grantee status as
meaningless, cheap and easy to get. And yet, if this
were so, then why did they never comply and register with
the FCC when they had the chance? The fact is that
their opportunity has come and gone, and so they can never say they are a grantee of the
FCC's Equipment Authorization System. As a result, they resort to
crying "sour grapes". Remember Aesop's lesson: "It
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What does the
FCC have to say about us?
Plenty!
Reference 1
Go to the FCC's "Equipment Authorization System Grantee
Search" page:
https://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/oet/cf/eas/reports/GranteeSearch.cfm.
In "Grantee name", enter BARCLAY and then scroll to the
bottom and click "Start Search". The result will be "Barclay
- Hare Enterprises, Inc.", which was our original name when
we first incorporated and began doing business in our tiny plant
in Riverside, California way back in 1988. Our permanent
authorized grantee code is HCL.
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Reference 2
You can also go to the FCC's complete list of
Grantees of Equipment Authorization System:
Part 68 address table. (Be
patient, this file is approximately 800K) Scroll down to find our grantee
code HCL, where you'll see our information.
You might notice that we're included
with such illustrious telecom companies as Matsushita
(Panasonic), AT&T, Executone, Inter-Tel, Toshiba, and Siemens.
As a repair facility and marketer of telecommunications
equipment, we are considered to be a re-manufacturer, and
thus are held to the same requirements as an OEM.
Yet as long as this list is,
you won't see our competition included,
even though they had an opportunity through 1998!
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Reference 3 Go to the FCC's
"Part 68 ID" page and enter 17885, our registration
code for "Refurbished Single & Two Line Phones" Click the submit
button and our original corporate name "Barclay - Hare
Enterprises" name and address will appear.
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Reference 4 Same as above, but
enter 17740, our registration code for "Multi-Line
Phones."
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Reference 5 Same as above, but enter
17921, our registration code for "Coin Phones."
Note: The FCC does
NOT endorse, recommend, or promote any particular telephone
manufacturer, re-manufacturer or repair facility!
Don't fall for any
claims by anyone that they are "endorsed" or "recommended" by
the FCC or that they are somehow "affiliated" with the FCC!
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