[VoIP] Porting phone number, what will happen with the POTS line?

[Rusty Dekema]

On 8/1/07, Lee Spenadel <lee at spenadel.com> wrote:
> ISDN is still out there?  It's like a Hitchcock movie.......

It's still out there, but at least in southeast Michigan, AT&T seems
to be trying to discourage its use (for BRI, anyway) by increasing the
price. In 1999, I had an ISDN BRI from Ameritech. It cost
approximately $80/mo for unlimited local calls, and then $45/mo for
the 800 calls per month plan that I switched to once I bought a better
router that didn't hang up and redial thousands of times per month.

Earlier this year, I called AT&T (mostly on a whim, but had the price
still been ~$40/mo, I might have ordered one to screw around with for
a few months) and asked about pricing on residential BRI, and they
said they could roll one out for $90/mo and no included calls at all.
I declined to place the order.

Rusty