Ancient relic, or diehard survivor?
ISDN continues to surprise all those who predicted it’s death years ago…a hold-over from a bygone era that is as entrenched as horseshoe crabs are old.
With blazing fast developments on the digital scene…how long can ISDN hold out? Read on:
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Hey Dave… you’re reading my mind. I just posted this question on LinkedIn this evening. http://linkd.in/pz38og
Three potential jobs have come up this week and me without my ISDN. It’s tough to swallow the bills, but I think we’ll be holding on for a few more years.
I’m with you. C’MON SKYPE!!!!!
Dave,
Ouch! ISDN is such a love/hate thing for a lot of talent not using it every day. Chicken-or-the-egg….Catch-22…whatever metaphor you want to use…
I think some sort of technology will pop soon (maybe SKYPE) that will just blow it all away (like .mp3 did)…and ISDN will drift into history quickly.
Thanks for stopping by.
Dave Courvoisier
Hi Guys, just thinking here about the ISDN issue and it’s carriers…
One thing I think is interesting to note about AT&T (and other telephone companies) is this: Over the last two/three years, I’ve noticed that so many of my family and friends have “dropped” their AT&T home phone lines and just operate with their cell phones. I get emails from young and old alike that say, “…the home number is no longer available, call me on my cell…here’s the number.” AT&T has got to feel this pinch in a huge way profit-wise (and frankly they deserve it after charging the same amount of money every month for your “residential line, your three way calling, call forwarding, call waiting, call return, call blocking, caller id, anonymous calling, and above all that the most rediculous monthly charge called, INSIDE WIRE PROTECTION.” (What?) All of these ‘extras’ that appear on your monthly bill are fees that cost them nothing to maintain. It’s complete and unadulterated “Bull” dreamed up by a brilliant executive who now has retired and lives in a castle in the south of Spain overlooking the Mediterranean (lol!) If AT&T were smart, they would have regulated all these charges as “one time charges.” But NO! They saw the potential for major monthly profit, and we all had no choice but to buy into it. Now, however, the game has changed, and AT&T is pounding the pavement hard for new customers. Every week I get a letter begging me to bundle everything I need to stay connected for 6 months before the price goes up! As Shakespeare once said, “Me think’s thou dost protest too much!” I wouldn’t be surprised, in years ahead, if AT&T took the same road as KODAK. Welcome to a new world…and the slow demise of AT&T. Dave.