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Re: My apologies - why is digital phone service even mentioned? said by et1212:Are we talking about VOIP (in that case you need a good broadband to have it work well)? If not, isn't all PSTN digitally already? What else can we improve upon it? Or did I miss another important evolution in telephone technology entirely? When they said digital phone, I think they were talking about the special VOIP that cable companies sell, that goes over cable and doesn't consume your bandwidth at all. Cable-phone is different from other VOIP, in that broadband isn't necessary for it to work. Theoretically, you could buy just cable-phone from the cable company.
It lacks line power, making POTS superior. Also I'm not sure but cable-phone might not support pulse-dial either.
As for improvement, I can think of one feature that's universal in Europe but we don't have here: Fixed line SMS, or landline SMS.
Because there's no landline SMS here, I refuse to use it at all. That and it costs every time someone sends you one, whether you want it or not. |
