23 Sep
2013
23 Sep
'13
8:39 a.m.
On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 08:14:11PM -0400, Steven Hirsch wrote:
I think that's more a criticism of North American cellular phone networks than
anything else.
Here in the UK, mobile telephony is so cheap and reliable that most voice calls
are now made from mobile phones. We mostly keep landlines because it's almost
impossible to get fixed-line broadband without it, and cellular data has become
cheap enough that it's eating into that market too.
On Sun, 22 Sep 2013, Fred Cisin wrote:
[...]
A classic
rotary dial landline has much better sound quality.
And offered a full-duplex audio
path. The conversational experience on a cell
phone (or even a lot of IP telephony platforms) is horrid.