patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | Voice is a rip off nowadays Cell companies laugh all the way to the bank with voice service and SMS. SMS, 15 cents for 150 bytes. HAHAHHAHAA Thats $700,000 to move 1 CD (700MB) worth of text messages.
Lets see what 31 days of chatting on your cellphone is.
(9.6/1024/8) * 60 * 60 * 24 * 31 = 3138.75 MB
9.6 Kbit per sec using »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EVRC worst case scenario. I love how every couple years they introduce a new lower bitrate codec that promises "better quality", and makes it only harder to understand anything from a cellphone. Also the way these codecs are designed, they basically match your voice to only syllables ("codebooks"), and then send your syllables. Try playing Top 40 music through a cellphone one day to prove this. Smart isn't it? and as the bandwidth decreases, one day your phone will just have a copy of »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Nat···Speaking one day. And a computer read out system at the other end. The data trasmitted over the cellphone network is actually Gzip'ed english text. Better not try using a different language, this is AMERICA!
Anyways, so, having a cellphone call for 31 days streight, and you eat 3.1GB of traffic, heh, thats less than Verizon's EVDO cap of 5GB. Remember your using as much bandwidth as a modem from V.32 modem from 1993.
Thats also a reason why cellphone providers don't want low latency internet on cellphones. They are scared someone will commercialize a VOIP cellphone, that sends data at a jaw dropping 64 kbit/s, compared to existing cellphone networks. It would be end of the world for network engineers or the CEOs that sign off on upgrades. |
