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smr <me@shawnritchie.com> wrote:
> On 11/6/2011 1:54 PM, Cydrome Leader wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> It never offered enough of an increase over dialup to be feasible as a 
> hot product. To get any appreciable speed increase you had to have 
> 2-channel anyways.
> 
> That said, I had dual ISDN at home for years when I couldn't get DSL due 
> to CO distance factors. It was the only better-than-dialup option I had.
> 
> What really sucked was when it had trouble and I had to grind through a 
> few field techs until I found the one out of 100 that had actually heard 
> of ISDN and knew what to do with it.

Any of my calls about ordering ISDN caused massive confusion after that 
TEAM-DATA number went away, since it wasn't a consumer service and I 
wasn't a business either. It seemed like it was some bastard service 
nobody directly sold or supported.

I still laugh when I see circuits with IBZD on them usually with an 
Ameritech logo-ed tag.