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Re:The end of phone calls: why young people have silenced th... by lazide on Monday August 30, 2021 @03:36PM (#28359940)
Now it seems like there is large (200ms+) delay on almost all phone calls - it makes it really hard to have a conversation even.

Business is still done in large part over the phone - when you need an answer soonish (and/or know that you’re not going to get an answer when you need it), phone calls are about the only thing that works reliably.

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Re:The end of phone calls: why young people have silenced th... by bdamm on Monday August 30, 2021 @03:41PM (#28360010)
Latency is infuriating. Bluetooth is particularly bad and calls where both ends are using Bluetooth are pretty miserable. It seems the norm these days that net calls with earphones and wired networking are lower latency than cellular calls.
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