Why do phone calls still sound so bad in this day and age?
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Compression and standards. Calls were designed to run on thin and feeble wiring. Transmitting an understandable voice signal was always the priority over fidelity. When we went digital, they stuck with the generally accepted norm. Bandwidth and time slots for cell networks were a limiting factor.
Newer networks, I can think of Sprint as one, offered hi def voice calls (or whatever they called them) but even those weren’t good. Just extended high frequency sensitivity.
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