From: Joshua Johnston (joshua_at_bowdownbefore.us)
Date: Sun Feb 08 2004 - 02:05:28 PST
Sure I pay for those minutes, my plan for $79 a month comes with quite a
lot of them during the day, and includes "free" nights and weekends.
Yes, I'm still paying a lot of money for a cellphone monthly bill, but I
don't even have a land phone. With email, I spend far less than my 700
monthly "prime time" minutes, and never hit the cap before being charged
more. Except for some concerns about the cell towers being scragged or
something like that, I figure the cellular phone is far more capable
than land lines.
And I don't know what phones you're used to, but mine's an Audiovox 9500
from Verizon and the signal quality is very clear, to my ears at least.
Eventually we'll get the nice, clear, full-motion low-distortion
CD-quality audio people want from videoconferencing. But we don't need
it, what we have now in iChat is good enough for most people, I think.
Can't beat the price.
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Benschop [mailto:rbenschop_at_euronet.nl]
Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2004 4:03 AM
To: newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net
Subject: Re: [NTLK] OT: audio/voice conferencing on the internet
On 8-feb-04, at 9:46, Joshua Johnston wrote:
> Heck, these days if audio quality was -that- important I'd just use
> night and weekend minutes on my cellphone, with video over the net if
> required.
You do pay for those 'free' minutes I presume and when I mention better
quality I mean better than a landline phone. I won't even mention the
dismal quality of cellphones...
Robert Benschop
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