"We now fully accept glitchy, noisy and totally unreliable service at an absurd price as the norm .. :-)"
Amen Grant! Cellular handsets with no side tone, and sometimes severe latency issues make for inefficient and unsatisfactory telephony! Frank/W9FM Grant Youngman wrote: > On Sep 15, 2009, at 2:05 PM, Charles Ring wrote: > >> While modern telephones can produce better audio (no carbon mics), >> modern phone exchanges don't. Th e old exchanges passed whatever audio >> was fed into them at least for local calls, but digital switching >> has a >> brick wall cutoff. I >> > > It depends on whether your exchange is still using a TDM switch or > softswitch, and whether you're on a standard landline or VoIP > service. Big difference. > > Even TDM switches now go up past 3Khz -- the standard is in the 3.3Khz > range, still far from adequate. VoIP service is far superior with > some services going up to the 7Khz range -- you can actually tell the > caller is Granny, which isn't always the case on TDM infrastructure. > On the landline here, my wife's sisters all sound the same -- I can't > tell who's calling. If they call on the VoIP line, that isn't the > case. There is discussion about improving cellular bandwidth, too, > but with the typical lousy handset, it may not make a lot of > difference. Bad just sounds bad, not to mention the fact that all > cellular has really done is kill our "old fashioned" expectations of > what phone service should be. We now fully accept glitchy, noisy and > totally unreliable service at an absurd price as the norm .. :-) > > Grant/NQ5T > ______________________________________________________________ > Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net > AMRadio mailing list > Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html > List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > Post: [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with > the word unsubscribe in the message body. > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: [email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
