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| Thread ID: 139756 | 2015-06-22 06:23:00 | Land line life. | Cicero (40) | PC World Chat |
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| 1403366 | 2015-06-23 22:23:00 | x2 Cellphone audio quality is garbage. Yep sure is but should improve with the likes of VoLTE.. |
paulw (1826) | ||
| 1403367 | 2015-06-23 22:23:00 | Dupe post | paulw (1826) | ||
| 1403368 | 2015-06-23 23:25:00 | x2 Cellphone audio quality is garbage. nah, it can be quite good. Its garbage if one of the users has a garbage ph, a bad reception area, is making a call in a noisey area or in a noisey moving car . Audio freq response on landline is really limited, by design , not sure how cellphone compares there.Seems better My home landline audio quality is not as good as my mobile ph. Any ph audio is really terrible when the other person insists on using speakerphone . Just pick up the ph , dont be so lazy :groan: |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1403369 | 2015-06-24 00:38:00 | Have a read of this Cic . aardvark . co . nz/daily/2015/0622 . shtml" target="_blank">www . aardvark . co . nz Quoted from that article - "Each exchange has a huge 50V power supply, backed up by batteries and often a diesel generator, so as to ensure that service could still be provided when the mains was out . " The reason for the batteries are not to ensure service when the mains were out - that is just a side benefit of having batteries . The mains supply is not constant and a constant supply of power is necessary for a telephone exchange . The main reason for the batteries is that although speech can be impressed on AC current, it is very noisy with a 50kHz hum . DC power - from the batteries - does not have that problem, so they use DC current for speech . Many of the more important exchanges, such as the Airedale St exchange in central Auckland, have generators to charge the batteries when the power goes down, but most exchanges do not . If the power goes off for a lengthy period they have mobile generators they can move in . "Each exchange has a huge 50V power supply . . . " The "huge 50v power supply" is provided by the batteries . I'm not quite certain why they call it "huge" as it is just banks of batteries (very much like car batteries) supplying the exchange - not all that huge . The battery room would have the floor area of about two sitting rooms . You may be wondering how I know all that . I worked for Telecom for 21 years . |
Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 1403370 | 2015-06-24 00:51:00 | I've ditched the land line since 2004, with mobile plans being so cheap nowadays, you could use that money you saved from SPARK and get an mobile plan with unlimited talk time. | SKT174 (1319) | ||
| 1403371 | 2015-06-24 02:31:00 | nah, it can be quite good. Its garbage if one of the users has a garbage ph, a bad reception area, is making a call in a noisey area or in a noisey moving car . Audio freq response on landline is really limited, by design , not sure how cellphone compares there.Seems better My home landline audio quality is not as good as my mobile ph. Any ph audio is really terrible when the other person insists on using speakerphone . Just pick up the ph , dont be so lazy :groan: Frequency response etc wasn't what I meant, indeed all telephony audio is 'low quality' but on a landline it's perfectly usable as there are no interruptions or other issues (normally, unless there is a line fault). Whenever I talk to someone who is using a cellphone there are problems with dropouts, static, fade etc, or their battery goes flat... It's a pain. Sure they are convenient for mobility but I'd rather talk to someone on a landline where they don't have to repeat half the conversation three times. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1403372 | 2015-06-24 06:31:00 | We are considering giving up land line, just people who want to ring us have to pay, that doesn't seem right. Your thoughts lads and PC. There are telephony plans out there where people can select a number or numbers to call to which are free, or for a small fee. So if you have regular calls from certain people they could subscribe to a plan type that includes this. And as has been mentioned, some providers allow virtually unlimited calls within their plan, eg the one I'm with on 2DG. |
Greg (193) | ||
| 1403373 | 2015-06-24 07:32:00 | Some of my younger family members - have 2 to 4 mobile phones/numbers. Bit of a pain as they reguarly change sims. Meaning we have to assign often their new numbers to our contacts, and bit unsure which number to call/text. Also, if you text someone - preferably only that only that person reads the text - not others that may have their mobile/sim card in their possesion. Found that out - when inlaws were reading my texts intended for my son. |
kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 1403374 | 2015-06-24 07:43:00 | We still have a land line, it's tied in with a package we have. Of course we have cellphones as well. I had always thought that our cellphones and land lines would become one; possibly sooner than later. Or is that just too simplistic? Sometimes I am very bad at forgetting I haven't turned my cellphone on. :p |
Marnie (4574) | ||
| 1403375 | 2015-06-24 22:11:00 | ...just people who want to ring us have to pay, that doesn't seem right. Instead, you have to *pay* so others can ring you free. We had a landline, only the in-laws rang. Her mum, her brother, and her Gran. Glad we were only paying a couple of bucks for a VoIP line and not $45 for a "real" landline, but even that's superfluous these days. |
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