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Re:The Death of the Telephone Call: 1876–2007 by freestockoption on Saturday September 24, 2016 @05:31PM (#12572743)
Lots of cell carriers are starting to do HD voice with VoLTE. It's definitely helped a bit, but there doesn't seem to be much in the way of crosscarrier compatibility.

I like Skype or Hangouts. I think the latency is a lot lower. When I'm on the cell, I feel like I'm always talking over people.

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Re:The Death of the Telephone Call: 1876–2007 by WalterBright on Saturday September 24, 2016 @05:57PM (#12572824)
Cell phone quality hasn't improved since my first cell phone in the early 90's. Everything else is far better but that.

Also, voice transmission only happens when the phone detects a voice, and this has the effect of clipping off the very first part of your sentence. I'd find this highly irritating, but I've noticed it a lot less in the last few years. Perhaps that has been fixed.

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