[Asterisk-Users] ADSI phone vs. IP phone

[Scott Bennett]

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.

USwest deployed these phones in the US under the product name "Home
Receptionist" went hand in hand with a service package so you could use
it.

The cost was $99, they would split it over 10 months, I think we bought
ours in 1999?