Toshiba Business Phone Systems

Toshiba Telecom was acquired by Mitel as Toshiba found a hidden 4-9 billion debt in the Toshiba Westinghouse Nuclear Power company. As Toshiba Telecom was also in this Toshiba Division, it was unexpectedly shutdown/sold to Mitel (a business phone competitor).

Mitel is keeping the product alive for some time. They are looking into networking Toshibas to Mitels as well to add their new Mitel GUI/Smart Phone Apps to the Toshiba platforms. Key Toshiba personel including tech suport and engineering were kept to service the product for years to come with bug fixes and updates. Hardware warranties may be extended to 5 years and you may prepay for up to 3 years of software updates and factory support.

Mitel has already started manufacturing additial Toshiba Product. Mitel says they have no end of life plans in mind. Keep in mind that FCC registered systems like Toshiba CIX/IPe have to supply parts and service for 5 years after end of life dates.

So with Toshiba's product development mature under Mitel why would one still consider purchasing a new or used Toshiba system?
+ A customer already has one or more Toshiba's and wishes to continue.
+ With digital/voip equipment that is the last old-school quality that can last 20 years.
+ Small systems may be dramatically less cost.
+ As of March 2017, the systems were state of the art.
+ Many manufactures of premise equipment may be moving to CLOUD only as it is more profitable for them, so any brand can be a risk.