It's similar to how ~all phone calls sound worse than they used to before the phone system was digitized. For a while, you could only get audio quality and dela

It's similar to how ~all phone calls sound worse than they used to before the phone system was digitized. For a while, you could only get audio quality and delay that bad by using a cell phone (actually, those went through a couple phases of differently-bad audio quality, as the tech "advanced")! Then they brought that joyful new experience to land line phones, so everyone could have it. It's cheaper, though. I assume. The main effect of which is that it's finally cheap enough to be economical to phone-spam our grandparents and scam them out of their savings... hm, yeah, never mind, it's all down-side.