Re: [PLUG] Re: FIOS

["Austin Murphy" <austin.murphy@gmail.com>]

On 4/28/06, James Barrett <jbarrett.phila@gmail.com> wrote:
> Also, if sound quality is important (I think I recall someone mentioning
> landline sound quality being better than wireless) I'm thinking fiber
> would have quite a dramatic improvement in quality (Verizon's site
> mentioned that customers might need to buy new phones. Perhaps they're
> fully digital? Could someone confirm that?)

You keep your normal phones.  They just digitize your signal at your
house instead of at the Central Office like they do now. I can't
imagine it would be much different unless you have ancient phone wires
to your house.

With fast internet service, IP phones are realistic, but thats a separate issue.

Austin
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