ISDN4BSD removal (was: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon)

[Christian Walther]

On 8 October 2010 18:12, Torfinn Ingolfsen
<torfinn.ingolfsen at broadpark.no> wrote:
[...]
> I don't know how it works in other countries, but here (in Norway) it
> works like this: yes - ISDN technology is dying.
> However, like all other technologies that major telcos have invested a
> lot in, its death is very slow. Extremely slow in fact.
>
> It could very well be that ISDN will live five or ten years still here,
> simply because it doesn't cost too much to maintain, and there is no
> new technology to push the dying ISDN over the edge off the cliff.

I second that. Living in germany I feel that many people are even used
to their good ol' analog phone lines. And since broadband here is
called "DSL" we need phone lines anyway. So the only reason to call
classic telephone services would be to use the freed frequency to
extend the bandwith available to DSL. And I don't see that happen
anytime soon. On the contrary, with all the investments in wireless
technologies I think that ISDN will stay for several years.

Personally I like having a good, solid backup when DSL goes down. And
I don't trust VoIP enough to shut down my classic telephone lines.