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BT UK Scrap Consumer ISDN and here in Ireland...

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  • 04-04-2007 12:17am
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    damien
    Registered Users Posts: 4,290 ✭✭✭


    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6519681.stm
    BT is to withdraw Integrated Digital Services Network (ISDN) services from consumer use later this year.

    ISDN proved very popular with people working from home who needed access to data connections faster than available dial-up modem speeds.

    "We are withdrawing consumer ISDN," said a BT spokesman, "the demand for it has dived with the availability of cheap, fast broadband."


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    Urban Weigl
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    Any bets Eircom will still be selling their so called "Hi Speed" (ISDN) to consumers a year from now, heck promoting it even...


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    1huge1
    Registered Users Posts: 6,173 ✭✭✭1huge1


    I hope they dont stop it
    Ive been using it for 5 years now


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    watty
    Registered Users Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    The best and least sold aspect was 8 user micro PABX about 200 Euro, 12 direct inward numbers and a PCI ISDN card in a small server so everyone in a small office had a direct inward FAX (all stored on server).

    The Speed aspect was crippling expensive as you needed to use both channels and no low cost local call to office server nor real flat rate Internet.

    The Heyday should have been 80s & 90s yet it was undersold, underavailable and underutilised as eircom sales did not understand the flexibility and uses of ISDN.

    Some companies still need flexible fax solutions so in Germany you can get Broadband on your ISDN. Here you can't. DSL+ ISDN is better than ADSL + 1905 analogue.

    The Last IT company I worked for we got one of the earliest DSL connections from eSat. The ISDN was still used (on a separate copper pair) for server based fax and also backup Internet access. (Used twice in 2 years, using server as Proxy/Router).

    If Fibre to the Home ever comes eircom will probably use the copper pair to pull it in so you can't have both.


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