A landline phone service seems a bit anachronistic, but there is a place for it. The future of telephony is here, but it sucks. Many here on HN probably don't even remember this, but phone calls actually used to be intelligible. Before cell phones and VOIP, before packet-switching and aggressive digital compression, calls traveled over Ma Bell's glorious circuit-switched network. You could actually understand what pe…
I was just in Australia and was blown away at the great quality of cellular phone calls. I thought I was on Viber.
I remember getting my first cell phone back in the late 90s and hating it for anything other than texts. I used to do conference calling, long conversations on the phone with friends and family but the cell phone ruined it with asynchronous communication. A few years later I was in Bangkok and called my parents with the phone I brought from the US, crystal clear, latency free, it was amazing, it literally was the best cell phone call I had ever had to this day. I don't have an iphone but iphone calls seem to be pretty good so maybe I just need to get over myself and get an iphone for the quality?