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Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
> Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> wrote:
>>Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
> 
>>I really think once Uverse is "mostly available", the DSL is going to end up
>>where ISDN is now, a legacy service that few of their people are going to
>>know about it.
> 
> I would have loved ISDN, but AT&T fucked it up so it never became a
> ubiquitous service unless you were provisioning a PBX.

The only problem with ISDN it was really quite pointless to anybody that 
never had it. It was never going to be a hit, with anybody.

The same type of idiots that made LDAP came up with ISDN as a solution to 
a problem that never existed. Like anything from a committee with no real 
technical skills or real life experience, it was far too complex and 
offered nothing anybody really wanted.

Unless people with pulse dial phones and party lines were really itching 
to get 3 frames per minute video conferencing, or to have to lease another 
terminal adapter to connect to their leased telephone, class I fax machine 
and credit card terminal.

Sadly, the committee or whoever that came up with ISDN seemed to think 
these were the people that would want it. So obviously since nobody aside 
from 14 businesses used it, it was hard to get for anybody else.

I lived at one place that I wanted ISDN at. AT&T said my CO had no capable 
switch, but they could run the line over from another CO for only 
$285/month or something weird like that.