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It is on the decline in India too: > In the past decade, landline subscriber base has been on a decline, with connections reducing from 36.76 million as of 31

It is on the decline in India too: > In the past decade, landline subscriber base has been on a decline, with connections reducing from 36.76 million as of 31 January, 2010 to 20.58 million as of 31 January, 2020. Of the total telecom 1.18 billion connections, only 20.26 million, or less than 2%, were landline as of February. - https://www.livemint.com/industry/telecom/trai-says-declining-landline-subscriber-base-a-concern-11594395547709.html https://www.livemint.com/industry/telecom/trai-says-declinin... (And yes, landline phones do offer better voice quality. Even if I am calling from a cellphone, I prefer to call someone on their landline. )

kkielhofner 5y ago
I used to joke that even with extended frequency response, etc cell phones and VoIP can certainly sound worse. I would compare the Sprint "pin drop" commercials[0] to the (at the time) Verizon Wireless "Can you hear my now?" campaign[1] with the joke being - progress from a pin drop to yelling "Can you hear me know? How's this? Is this better? Sorry about that." 20 years of progress! Of course now (for the most part) packet loss concealment and other advanced technologies have equalized a bit of this but there are still days where I miss B-channels on a T1 PRI. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4dIDl8sjJk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4dIDl8sjJk [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo0xsZCRp4g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo0xsZCRp4g