Every landline provider seems to be pivoting to VoIP now.
You used to ignore the phone to browse the internet on a computer.
Now you ignore the computer to browse the internet on your phone.
Now you ignore the computer to browse the internet on your phone.
I am so impressed about the people that still mainly browse the Internet using a PC… But I am more impressed that people don’t have a PC in their dwelling…
Maybe it is so millennial from my part, but in the house we still have a dedicated “PC room” with a printer that the whole family uses, of course our family browsing experience was almost exclusively done from said room years ago.
If you are a peasant. Why would you want to look at the world through a keyhole, when you can look at the world through a large picture window?
99% of all my internet activity is done through a computer.
I also prefer a desktop, but I’m not an elitist and I recognize the majority of people, especially younger people, consume a significant amount (if not a majority) of content on their phones.
I want to use VoIP to dial into a BBS to play some legend of the red dragon.
I’m still waiting for IPoV but I guess no one ever invented it.
Just gotta shout dialup noises.
In a sense, that’s what phreaking was, if a toy whistle from a breakfast cereal box counts.
Flight of the Conchords already did it. Zero zero zero zero zero zero one. Zero zero zero zero zero zero one.
modem noises
I used to call support to see if the internet service was down when I couldn’t connect, now I browse to a status page to see if the phone service is down, and I work in tech support.
sad old man noises
The switchover for cellular was 3G (HSPA) > 4G (LTE).
Data transmission over 3G is encapsulated over the audio channels, and pure LTE is VoIP over data channels. Most networks relied on both during the transition, and it’s the reason many ‘4G’ capable handsets were deprecated when 3G networks were shut down, as they never fully implemented VoIP for audio calls.
Incidentally, DOCSIS (v1.0 - 3.0) downstream channels are encapsulated within MPEG2 frames.
Yes, and the underlying technology for internet voice traffic is called SIP. It’s kind of a pain in the ass.
I work for a mid size telco. VoIP has been the predominate method for voice communications going on 10+ years it was just behind the scenes.
