Cannot get Telnet to work between two servers on same subnet

I need to test if communication is open on port 8444 between two servers.

I installed telnet client on a Server 2008 R2 server and telnet server on a Server 2008 SP2 server.  I also manually started the Telnet service that was set to disabled on the SP2 server.  I disabled the Windows firewall on both servers.  They are both on the same subnet so they don't need to go through any routers and I can ping successfully.

When I try to telnet to the remote server by typing telnet "ip address" 8444, I get an error that says "Could not open connection to host, on port 8444:  Connection failed.

I tried other ports like port 80 and got the same error.

What else is needed to get this to work?