BT has announced that it is to withdraw Integrated Digital Services Network (ISDN) services from consumer use later this year. The news follows a related article this morning, which saw a more complicated ISDN to broadband upgrade path being put on hold (here):


No doubt the seasoned surfers among our readership will recall BT's residential ISDN service, better known as HomeHighway and later MidBand. One other positive to ISDN is that it still provides a reliable alternative to satellite solutions in the small areas where ADSL is not available.

Though ridiculously expensive, we still have fond memories of the technology and how it helped to make faster (than dialup) Internet access more accessible to the UK. Does anybody here still use it? More @ BBC News Online.