[asterisk-users] Advice on ISDN and Asterisk in the UK

[Alan Lord]

Gordon Henderson wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Alan Lord wrote:
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>> I used to have an ISDN-2 line into my home office. BT wrote to me about
>> 2 years ago and said they were discontinuing the service. They converted
>> my dual channel BRI back into a single POTS.
> 
> Sure it was ISDN2e and not Home or Business Highway? They killed off an 
> the HH and BG lines some time back and converted them back to POTS. I've 
> no idea why - I'd cancelled my HH line some time before the cut-off date.

Yes, I think it was called Home Highway (but it *is* just a BRI at the 
end of the day). It had a USB port on the NTE which I never really 
grokked. Not being a Windows user and all.

>> I built a little Asterisk server, stuck an X100p in it for backup calls
>> should my broadband go down (on a separate POTS line) and got two
>> non-geo 0844 IAX trunks for free instead.
>>
>> Who lost out there then?
> 
> Well, quite. BT have their good points, but also their stupidly bad 
> points too.
> 
> They phone me up once a month at present and ask me why I'm not placing 
> any outgoing calls with them. When I try to tell them why, (because I 
> run my own phone company!) because my reply is not in the script, they 
> just hang up on me.

LOL - That's a good one.

Alan