ISDN is as easy to operate as a nuclear power plant, and as convenient as an iron lung, Michael Finneran, president of dBrn Associates Inc, a Hewlett, New York-based consultant on ISDN services told the Wall Street Journal – but it may not matter too much anyway: the burden of the piece is that with cable modems making much faster broadband networks available for accessing the Internet and its World Wide Web, the day of Integrated Services Digital Network may well be past and gone; excessively high tariffs for ISDN lines has prevented the system taking off in the UK, and British Telecommunications Plc has probably missed the boat since the embattled UK cable operators will soon have a bright new weapon in their armoury for their battle to woo local phone custom away from British Telecom.
