How Portability Ruined the Telephone (2015)

Re:How Portability Ruined the Telephone (2015) by WalterBright on Saturday February 13, 2016 @10:00PM (#11096950)

I've found that Skype has much better voice quality than land lines. Skype > land line > cell line.

I dislike longer conversations over the cell phone because of the poor voice quality. It's a big reason why I keep my land line.

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Re:How Portability Ruined the Telephone (2015) by therein on Sunday February 14, 2016 @05:52AM (#11097812)

You need to make sure the person on the other side is also using a landline, though.

Also, Skype is great when both parties have sufficient bandwidth for whatever codec it opts when it detects a high quality data connection but it simply sucks when it detects poor connection, gets worse than Google Hangouts does.

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Re:How Portability Ruined the Telephone (2015) by hammock on Sunday February 14, 2016 @08:18PM (#11100951)

If you've ever worked in an office with VoIP phones, you know that the level of high quality audio is eerie. It's almost too real to seem like a phone call.

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