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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2023-09-07 13:27, Evan Leibovitch
via talk wrote:<br>
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class="gmail_default">Forgive me for insisting that technical
curiosity take a back seat to the real-world medical needs of
people. But I will insist. This is a real problem, not an
experiment nor a business decision.<br>
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Doesn't Bell have a department for helping people with medical
issues? Seems to me they used to.<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">Indeed, that is Bell's problem that it MUST
solve. If the transition has broken backwards compatibility (to
use our lingo), they must fix the breakage. Their current
digital-to-analog solution may work for many users (such as my
landline) but clearly isn't sufficient for Karen's needs.</blockquote>
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How do you know it's Bell's problem. All we know is something
changed when she moved. I defy anyone to listen to a good analog
line and compare it to a digital line and tell me what the
difference is, other than perhaps better quality audio on the
digital line. You can consider things like level, frequency
response, phase shift, noise, distortion and more. Incidentally,
when digital trunks started to be used, people complained they were
too quiet! They were used to all the noise that accompanied analog
calls.<br>
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BTW, many years ago, I used to measure those things on various
circuits, including the CBC radio feed in Northern Ontario.<br>
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