Caller ID Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: Support Digium

[Mark Elkins]

On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 00:11, David J Carter wrote:
> Mark J Elkins wrote
> 
> >Um - Digium wants you to buy their hardware - but there is a CLID
> >issue.. would it not make more financial sense to insert a dumb ISDN
> >card (or two), and upgrade your PSTN to ISDN??? Would this not "assist"
> >Digium in making sure CLID worked in the UK???
> 
> Isn't this a bit like cutting of the nose to spite the face.
> 
> UK PSTN lines costs £30 /Qtr  UK ISDN costs £65 /qtr, you could buy two
> X100P's every year and still be in pocket by staying with PSTN.

ISDN BRI is two lines - so that makes it £2.50 more per line ???? - or
£10 a year..?? no need to purchase the BT50 (a caller-ID unit? - at what
cost? you need one per line? and an RS232 interface per unit?)

> There was a post on the list in the not to distant past where someone had
> written two small scripts for getting the information from a BT50 and a
> serial modification and passing it to asterisk.
> 
> Still seems the best way in the interim.
> 
> As has been said many times in the list Digium have given us this software,
> we don't have to give them a hard time in return. Not a fair payback.

True - the software is excellent. If they sold an ISDN BRI 4-port card
(like Fritz) - I'd buy it from them. 
No intentions of bad mouthing Digium... but USA != World

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