Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 20:38:37 +0100 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: isdn@freebsd.org Subject: Deutsche Telekom termination of T-ISDN Mehrgeraeteanschluss Standard Message-ID: <201011241938.oAOJcb3x036939@fire.js.berklix.net>
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Hi ISDN users, 1st half mail concerns only some people in Germany, 2010 11 19, I received a letter from Deutsche Telekom, that they plan to terminate my ISDN early in the new year, & encouraging me to sign up for eg: double flat rate + 6 M bit/s DSL. Scanned excerpt : http://berklix.com/~jhs/txt/isdn/ I already also have DSL (1 Mbit/s) obviously time to upgrade that. Telekom don't say if they're scrapping all national ISDN service, or just in my city centre area, or just some ISDN service. I'll phone up D.Telekom & try to find out what's going on also beyond my locality. I havent used isdn on FreeBSD for many years to move data (I use DSL for that), But I daily use ISDN to both: - Support my Istec-1008 ISDN Local_Call_Office = Private_Branch_Exchange = TK_Anlage, - Display name (not number) of all callers presented on an xterm to me. I'd hate to lose that. I'm in a city, so DSL cable length no problem, but if D.T. were proposing to drop ISDN ? what happens to other people way out in the country where DSL repeaters cant reach ? Independent of reader country:: ISDN for BSD was developed largely in Germany, If ISDN supplier D.T. were to remove ISDN service some places, it might affect developers ? ( I'm still running ISDN on FreeBSD-6 as latest patches on 9-current I've not tried yet, sorry). The other way to retain a named text caller ID from incoming number, is for me to reconnect serial cable (still a use for serial :-) to my Istec-1008 ( /usr/ports/misc/estic ) then like I did maybe a decade back with isdnd, hack estic to look up name from numbers. But that Istec-1008 also needs ISDN, & very few if any other PBX have ever had their serial protocol cracked, & a package written like Istec hardware & Estic software. If anyyone knows of other LCO / PBX / TK public source packages I'd be interested. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail plain text; Not quoted-printable, or HTML or base 64. Avoid top posting, it cripples itemised cumulative responses.
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