[Asterisk-Users] ADSI phone vs. IP phone

[Ken Alker]

--On Wednesday, January 21, 2004 5:54 AM -0600 Steven Critchfield 
<critch at basesys.com> wrote:

> 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 really a step ahead of the curve, they spent the
> money on a PC.

When you say "that much", what were the costs at the time?