Mr Matt
join:2008-01-29
Eustis, FL
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| VoIP needs intelligibility standards.  VoIP needs intelligibility standards. Before moving all voice communications to VoIP like the FCC proposed, the FCC or another agency needs to set intelligibility standards for VoIP service. Who cares what technology is used if subscribers cannot understand the calling party. Bell Labs spent several years developing the T Carrier System to the level where it could be used for Toll Grade Service. Those setting standards need to review how Bell Labs developed the Mu Law Analog to Digital and Digital to Analog voice conversion technology in the late 1950's. Some VoIP connections to those overseas call centers suck! I spend more time asking the representative to repeat their words than the time it takes to complete the contact. |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
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| I've had VoIP connections that sound just as good, if not better than, POTS. Guess who these connections used as a gateway? If you guessed MagicJack, you're right. SIP technology is at a point where, as long as you have 128 kbps of symmetric bandwidth with halfway-reasonable latency and jitter you can have a solid voice conversation.
That said, there are a LOT of places where AT&T doesn't provide that. |
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 djrobx
join:2000-05-31
Valencia, CA
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Unless something's really wrong with your network, VOIP calls are pretty clear. But I suppose you're right, without some sort of standard, providers might keep reducing the codec bandwidths to save money.
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | said by djrobx:Unless something's really wrong with your network, VOIP calls are pretty clear. But I suppose you're right, without some sort of standard, providers might keep reducing the codec bandwidths to save money. Might? THEY WILL!!!! Look at cellphones, in the 1990s it used to be 14kbitps, FOURTEEN. Now is VBR 9.6kbitps and falling as low as 6 kbitps.
They could also use, »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_Exci···ediction god help you if the telco uses that. |
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 dib22
join:2002-01-27
Kansas City, MO
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yea you should check out a skype to skype call my friend  you will be astounded how good 3k/sec can sound.
as for bell labs... well they sold that... at&t is just run by marketing now... it's only called at&t... it doesn't even run like SBC/Southwestern Bell anymore... it's turned it's attentions to only increasing profit... no longer does it care about innovation. |
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| It is sad, the whole breakup of Bell really destroyed the best telephone system in the world and while they were at it destroyed a national brain trust! Judge Greene committed treason, in my honest opinion and was likely in the pocket of MCI and those that were able to profit on the breakup of Bell assets! I tell you, while there were some aspects of a telephone monopoly that were not the best ... I think the good far out weighed the bad.
Do to what the Government did to AT&T when they broke up Bell... why would any company want to invest in Fiber as an alternative to cooper as they worry that someday the government will come along and tell them, thanks for spending billions on infrastructure, now you are a monopoly, now you must open your fiber to anyone that wants to sell service!
The Government has to guarantee that they will not force AT&T, Verizon,etc, from sharing their fiber networks if they are going to consider fiber as the replacement to cooper. The Government should also must subsidize VZ and AT&T to lay infrastructure in the rural areas. Tell the government to pull foreign aid and spend money on America for a change! Hell, how many billions were sent to Israel this year? How many billions in Iraq? It's time for priorities to focus on the home-front and in order to keep America competitive we must be able to deliver the future, broadband, to our entire nation as to make sure people, businesses and schools have access to the new connected world!
Good reading material on the subject of rural infrastructure that may give some good insight on what would need to be done today in order to achieve a fully connected modern nation:
The Rape of Ma Bell by ALFRED W. DUERIG and CONSTANTINE RAYMOND KRAUS
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said by Mr Matt: VoIP needs intelligibility standards. Thank you! This has been a pet peeve of mine at every location where I have experienced VoIP service.
Back in the day, there were actually minimum standards that the phone companies were supposed to adhere to for voice and other services (even if they ignored them for the large part). Many of these grew out of the original Bell Labs engineering department, and were actually well thought out by some of the best engineers around.
If we are going to have VoIP shoved down our throats, there should at least be some minimum standards for service quality (even though they will will still be ignored by providers). The way it is currently, it's pretty much like the Wild West, where anything goes, and we keep paying the bill....  |
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