Cable VoIP Sounds Better Than Some Landlines

A. G. Bell writes "A recent study that looked at the quality of phone calls came up with some surprising results. Ars Technica reports that while 'traditional' VoIP call quality lagged behind landlines, service from cable ISPs was much better because of their use of PacketCable: 'VoIP from the cable companies actually surpassed the traditional phone network in reliability, meaning that the service was more often available and connected calls without dropping them. Cable providers also led the way in audio quality; the top firm in Keynote's study actually turned in an MOS of 4.24, above most real phone networks.'"

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DUH!

[BobSutan]

"while 'traditional' VoIP call quality lagged behind landlines, service from cable ISPs was much better because of their use of PacketCable: 'VoIP from the cable companies actually surpassed the traditional phone network in reliability, meaning that the service was more often available and connected calls without dropping them."

Isn't that common sense, and the reason why we need net neutrality?! If companies like Comcast would stop crippling their competitor's VoIP service (read: Vonage), then perhaps this little study would have found different results, namely that VoIP in general can sound better than landlines regardless of the operator. Case in point, Vonage to Vonage calls with max voice quality settings (in the router) are great, or I should say they WERE great until Comcast started messing with people's packets about a year and a half ago.