[Asterisk-Users] ADSI phone vs. IP phone

[Steven Critchfield]

On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 14:10, Ken Alker wrote:
> --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.
> 

It has been mentioned here that when some telco rolled out the service
the phone was $99 and could be split out over several bills. I seem to
remember the one my sister had was from Radio Shack and listed at $150
or more.  
-- 
Steven Critchfield  <critch at basesys.com>