Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 12:08:05 +0100 From: Cologne Chip AG <info@colognechip.com> To: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> Cc: isdn@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Deutsche Telekom termination of T-ISDN Mehrgeraeteanschluss Standard Message-ID: <4CEE4395.3080705@colognechip.com> In-Reply-To: <201011241938.oAOJcb3x036939@fire.js.berklix.net> References: <201011241938.oAOJcb3x036939@fire.js.berklix.net>
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Dear Julian, it is a misinterpretation of the letter that you have received, that Deutsche Telekom (DT) intends to terminate the ISDN service. But DT has decided to drop some old tariffs. Nowaydays DT promotes flat-rate tariffs for voice, e.g. in combination with xDSL for data access. Your tariff seems to to be such an old one for time-based billing. Of course you can stay with your existing ISDN subscriber line for telephony and narrow-band data communications. Only the billing method will be changed - not the access technology itself. For addition information please refer to the announcement of this step of DT (in April last year): http://www.teltarif.de/telekom-isdn-komfort-kuendigung/news/34001.html (in German language only) Best regards, Harald Schaefer Julian H. Stacey wrote: > 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. -- <---------------------------------------------------------------> < Cologne Chip AG + The ISDN Chip Company! > < + > < Eintrachtstr. 113 + Phone: +49-221-9124-0 > < + Fax : +49-221-9124-100 > < 50668 Koeln + > < + Email: info@colognechip.com > < Germany + Web : www.colognechip.com > <---------------------------------------------------------------> Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Hermann-Josef Kirschbaum Vertretungsberechtigter Vorstand: Dr. Michael Gude (Vorsitz), Joerg Ciesielski, Harald Schaefer, Klaus Winterscheidt Registergericht: Amtsgericht Koeln, HRB 33457
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