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Am I the only one who prefers voice quality on a landline? For conversations longer than 1 minute it's just much easier on the ears, in my opinion.
by jeffwass 11y ago
Am I the only one who prefers voice quality on a landline?
For conversations longer than 1 minute it's just much easier on the ears, in my opinion.
- ascagnel_ 11y agoVoLTE (Voice over LTE) and WiFi calling both sound spectacular, but they're still in the process of being rolled out and require both parties to opt-in ahead of time. Beyond voice quality, a POTS landline (at least in the US) will keep running even when the local power grid is down. Unfortunately, phone lines and power lines share utility poles, so if there's physical damage your phone service will also be interrupted.
- joe5150 11y agoWhere I used to live, the POTS lines were on separate poles from the power lines in a lot of areas, and the phone lines were far and away more robust than the power lines. During the winter, snow would routinely take out the power in huge areas, sometimes for two weeks or longer, but you could still use the phone if you had a basic trimline model (which everybody kept one around for these situations) into the jack.
- Asbostos 11y agoI seem to remember that you can hear your own voice on a landline, so you can more comfortably regulate the volume. Talking on a cellphone is just randomly speaking and hoping the other person hear it right. I think this led to a lot of the shouting on cellphones in in the street or on the train that people used to do. Uncomfortable I agree.
- bediger4000 11y agoNo, you're not. I do too. Also, whatever noise cancellation, sampling or jitter that cell phones have makes it so that people talk over each other a significant number of times. Landlines don't have that, and I suspect that the analog "last mile" is the reason.