[HN Gopher] Running the 1G Analog Phone from 1997
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       Running the 1G Analog Phone from 1997
        
       Author : possiblelion
       Score  : 25 points
       Date   : 2021-07-05 11:43 UTC (11 hours ago)
        
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       | snypher wrote:
       | I wish everyone Medium author would just buy a .com and publish
       | there. I'm not signing in to read text, sorry.
        
       | logbiscuitswave wrote:
       | > The sound quality is surprisingly good. Now I understand why
       | people were complaining when they moved from AMPS to the first
       | generation of GSM -- the FM with 12 KHz modulation works actually
       | well.
       | 
       | I remember this. When digital voice became commonplace a frequent
       | complaint was how people sounded like they were underwater from
       | the compression. I don't think it was until VoLTE became a thing
       | that I can recall a really big increase in voice quality since
       | the move to digital voice.
        
       | jazzido wrote:
       | Listening to phone calls was trivial back then (early to mid
       | 90s).
       | 
       | Pretty much only rich people owned cellphones where I lived, and
       | my unlocked Kenwood TH-78E handheld transceiver gave me access to
       | their world :)
        
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