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Re: Trust Ma' Bell and her babies...

The real reason that you can pick out the subtle nuances of the human voice over thousands of miles of telco cable is because it is 100% digital once it leaves your local CO. Anyone who is old enough to have made long distance calls in the 50’s (when the PSTN was 100% analog) knows how bad it used to sound.

Digital transmission over a mostly fiber-optic network made the Sprint Pin-Drop ad a reality, it has nothing to do with 6 nine pure copper, exotic insulation or anything else like that, regardless of what some mindless marketing guy from a Hi-Fi cable vendor might want us to believe.


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