[Asterisk-Users] ADSI phone vs. IP phone

[Steven Critchfield]

On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 03:00, Ken Alker wrote:
> --On Tuesday, January 20, 2004 2:28 PM -0500 Andrew Kohlsmith 
> <akohlsmith-asterisk at benshaw.com> wrote:
> 
> [...]
> > I thought you were wrong here, as I have Vista 390 at home and I was sure
> > that wasn't the case.  Lo and behold one of the biggest reasons for my
> > wanting to go ADSI over IP has been shattered.
> [...]
> 
> May I ask where you live that you have an ADSI phone "at home"?  I've been 
> involved with CallerID testing since the inception of the idea, and I'd 
> never heard of ADSI until this week.  The entire thing just blows me away; 
> can't understand why I've never heard one thing about it.  I have to assume 
> that it never made it to the U.S... despite what all the articles I'm 
> finding claim (written back in 1993-1999).  Either that, or it just never 
> made it out to my neck of the wood (Santa Barbara, CA), which is entirely 
> possible since Verizon/GTE rules the land here and they are always a decade 
> behind the rest of the country.

It made it to the US. The problem was cost. No one is willing to spend
that much money for a phone when they could buy a webtv or a email
station. If they are realy a step ahead of the curve, they spent the
money on a PC.

-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>