Re: [microsound] top cellular 40

["e.g. ø Enrico Glerean" <glere@xxxxxxxxx>]

among the many options/proposals for the UMTS standard, there will be 
the possibility for the user to decide the quality of voice ...because 
if I accept a lower quality, I can send less data and so I will spend 
less money since in the future the bills will be calculated on the 
amount of sent/received data and not on the amount of time of connections.
e.

ben nevile wrote:
> 
>> this may have the effect of rendering standard telephone voice
>> conversations at higher quality, which would be amazing...
> 
> 
> no, i don't think so.  the limiting factor in the quality of voice 
> telephony is bandwidth, not speakers or headphones.  it will always be 
> in the company's best interest to keep bandwidth as low as possible to 
> minimize their communication costs.  if there are advances made I think 
> it will be in the wavelet codecs they use, the math that compresses and 
> then reconstructs the signals.  there is a LOT of research being done in 
> this area.
> 
> bbn
> 
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