This is REAL phone service, not a gimmick!
Traditional "wire-line" phone service and
Digital Voice service are identical in more ways than they are
different.
- They both carry a voice conversation
from your phone through a switchboard system to another phone.
- The other phone can be on the same switchboard or another
company's switchboard.
- All switchboards are now digital meaning that your call is
converted to digital in both traditional and Digital Voice
systems.
The big differences all work in your favor.
- Instead of using the phone company's
exclusively controlled wires, your call travels on your
broadband. The lack of exclusivity allows Digital Voice
services to be priced to provide a much better value.
- The switch boards used by traditional phone companies are
incredibly expensive and even though they are outdated, they are
too hard to update to bring you new features. Digital Voice
services use newer switchboard technologies that are easily
upgraded whenever new features are available.
- Since the call is converted to digital in your home, the
call quality doesn't degrade over distance or in bad weather
like traditional analog connections can.