Re: Landline telephone service Disappearing in 20 States

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From: Bob Eager
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2018 21:35

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On Tue, 09 Jan 2018 13:26:36 -0800, hancock4 wrote:

> On Monday, January 8, 2018 at 12:05:31 PM UTC-5, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> 
>> And the sound quality is going to hell in a handbasket.
> 
> Would anyone know accurately the bandwidth (or another measurement) of a
> cellphone voice path vs. a landline voice path?

In the UK, the non-DSL information capacity of a landline is about 3000 
baud (symbols per second). Roughly speaking, with no-DSL technology, 
that's about 50kb/s.

With DSL, it varies with line length and quality, the worst typically 
being about 500kb/s.

These are very approximate.

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