don't scoff at my landline (Score: 1) by carguy@pipedot.org on 2015-08-24 03:01 (#J8M7) We use the phone a lot for business and it's usually obvious when someone calls us on a cell/mobile phone -- the quality is obviously worse with clipped words and whole phrases often missing. VOIP is often similar. On the other hand, calls from other landlines are almost always good quality audio.Sometimes we have to call out from our suburban location on a cell. We must be between towers or something, the quality is always terrible. Re: don't scoff at my landline (Score: 1) by evilviper@pipedot.org on 2015-08-24 20:39 (#JB6S) VoIP is usually pretty good. Over a slower internet connection to a 3rd party, the service might not always be great, but VoIP directly from your cable/telco can have higher quality audio than copper phone lines, and with very little latency.There's work on higher-quality cell calls with "HD Voice" (and VoLTE). You'll still have more latency than any kind of land-line, but the sound quality can be far better than traditional cell calls.
Re: don't scoff at my landline (Score: 1) by evilviper@pipedot.org on 2015-08-24 20:39 (#JB6S) VoIP is usually pretty good. Over a slower internet connection to a 3rd party, the service might not always be great, but VoIP directly from your cable/telco can have higher quality audio than copper phone lines, and with very little latency.There's work on higher-quality cell calls with "HD Voice" (and VoLTE). You'll still have more latency than any kind of land-line, but the sound quality can be far better than traditional cell calls.