28 Sep
2013
28 Sep
'13
9:05 a.m.
On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 07:46:16AM -0400, TeoZ wrote:
Maybe you can launch a few satellites and switch back
to analog phones. My
old Nokia 100 (90's analog not the newer digital) had perfect sound,
especially once everybody switched to digital and nobody was using up the
analog bandwidth.
Er, analogue systems can't vary the bandwidth based on demand, so it doesn't
get better if nobody else is using it. It's a circuit-switch network, not
packet-switched!
Your nostalgia is getting the better of you if you think that was "perfect
sound". The thing was limited to about 2.5kHz, and there was all of the digital
chatter from the in-band signalling. About the only great thing about it was
that it existed at all.