On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:38:08 -0700, Todd Allcock wrote:

> At 08 Nov 2007 07:05:38 -0800 David W Studeman wrote:
>
>> For some reason, when I talk to people on Sprint and Verizon, they
>> sound like they have marbles in their mouths but I
> honestly
>> do not know that it is not a lot of really bad handsets out there or
>> the technology itself.
>
> Both CDMA and GSM are capable of good voice quality, but the ever
> increasing need for bandwidth encourages cell providers to use lower
> bit- rate codecs. I think T-Mobile has the best voice quality in the US
> right now, better than AT&T (who uses the same technology, GSM) but it's
> worse than it was a few years ago.
>
>> Maybe I should buy a bag of marbles and join the fun. Can you hear me
>> now? Yes but Damn!
>
>
> Apparently the bandwidth crunch even effects texting- "See you later"
> seems to get reduced to "C U L8R" on most phones these days! ;-)

That's pretty funny. I wasn't aware that it wasn't the text message fiends
gone mad on society, thanks for clearing this up.
I do use T-Mobile for voice and I've been pretty happy with it. My Moto
MPx200 while not being the loudest ringer on the planet, gave good voice
and was lacking 850mhz so using T-Mo with it was a no brainer. I'm now
using a Nokia N95-3 which also seems to sound good with the T-mo sim in it
but my AT&T account is Data only and I use it with a data card so I have
no way to know how AT&T would sound on it. I should have known it was the
codecs though. Nothing like taking decades old digital quality and
degrading it with a new space saving codec.



Dave