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Why is telephone (land lines and cellular) audio quality so bad?

Asked by blastoboy1000 (24points) January 2nd, 2011

To clarify, why does the audio of telephone calls have such a low bitrate? In case there are people who wonder whether the problem exclusively deals with issues regarding technological limitations, and is unaffected by business practices and regulations: Other forms of voice communication, such as those through computer hardware, have such higher voice quality, so why not telephone audio as well?

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