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[ NNSquad ] POTS, VOIP and sound quality
I agree with the below. You *can* do great digital telecom audio. Skype -- when it works -- can sound great (though latency and echo can still be an issue). And there's a reason that the standard for live high quality audio feeds for radio broadcasters is still ISDN-based codecs (for this reason, ISDN is far from dead, though the telcos would love to kill it off -- there are now IP-based systems for this, but you can only depend on ISDN, e.g. Telos Zephyr, typically being available). But VoIP seems to mostly be taking the "VHS" approach to audio -- shoot for the poorest quality audio that your subscribers will tolerate. And unfortunately, many cellular carriers seem to have a similar philosophy as they try to squeeze as many subs as possible onto every site. --Lauren-- NNSquad Moderator ----- Forwarded message from Dave Farber <dave@farber.net> ----- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 14:41:19 -0500 From: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net> Subject: [IP] POTS, VOIP and sound quality Reply-To: dave@farber.net To: ip <ip@v2.listbox.com> Begin forwarded message: > From: Suzanne Johnson <fuhn@pobox.com> > Date: January 2, 2010 2:37:33 PM EST > To: dave@farber.net > Subject: POTS, VOIP and sound quality > > > > I'm one of those folks who has kept POTS lines. Not necessarily just > for reliability, but for the better sound quality. I do use clarity > enhancing phones, and I do wear hearing aids. > > I've asked friends who I previously had no problem understanding, > whether they'd switched service providers when suddenly phone > conversations with them became difficult to understand due to faint , > somewhat muffled sound. Invariably, they say they just switched to VOIP > service. > > I live in a rural area, so am wondering if this is real, or something > particular to areas like this? Would it go away if both ends of the > conversation were VOIP? > > Has anyone really looked at this aspect of the issue? ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ----- End forwarded message -----