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Cellphones Really Are Not As Good As They Were 10 Years Ago At Making Calls (telegraph.co.uk)

Posted by timothy on from the I'll-call-you-right-back dept.

whoever57 writes: If you ever thought that your cellphone does not make calls as well as the cellphone you had 10 years ago, you may be right. The UK's Ofcom (roughly equivalent to the FCC) tested cellphones and found that many needed a much higher signal than the standards recommend in order to send and receive data. This applied to 2G, 3G and 4G connections. Confirmation bias has me nodding along; Google Fi has been dropping a huge percentage of my calls lately, and I've been unfairly reminiscing about the good old days with a heavy Nokia 5100 series phone.

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  1. "G" has nothing to do with Cellular Calls by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    2G, 3G, and 4G refer only to the datastream portion of the cellular system. Voice calls that do not use VoIP us the voice channel, which is completely independent of "G."

    Admittedly though, more and more carriers are switching the voice systems off and using VoIP instead, so yeah we all know that cellular data sucks, and VoIP also sucks, so when you combine sucky with sucky you get an extra hot steaming pile of fail.

  2. Re:This just in... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Antenna's serve a purpose"

    So do apostrophes. That wasn't one of them, though.

  3. Re:Penetration is my problem... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Penetration is my problem

    So are you saying you need a longer antenna?

  4. Re:Penetration is my problem... by DougOtto · · Score: 1, Funny

    This is /.

    Lack of penetration is a common problem.

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    Solving Unix problems since 1989...
  5. Re:Penetration is my problem... by avandesande · · Score: 5, Funny

    You are just holding it wrong!

    --
    love is just extroverted narcissism