<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'>I should add that my initial intent was the voice ecosystem, aside from the end-users. For those, usually it's one of the things we all already know.<div><br></div><div>Why would carrier A have "good quality", while carrier B didn't?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I had a conversation with a customer about quality being more important than price. A lot of things come to mind right away (such as diversity, latency, jitter, packet loss, etc.), but I'm looking for what I don't know.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>orrrr</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Are there just that many poorly ran companies where the low-hanging fruit I'm brushing aside is where almost all of the problems occur?</div><div><br><div><span name="x"></span><br><br>-----<br>Mike Hammett<br>Intelligent Computing Solutions<br>http://www.ics-il.com<br><br><br><br>Midwest Internet Exchange<br>http://www.midwest-ix.com<br><br><span name="x"></span><br></div><br><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Mike Hammett" <voiceops@ics-il.net><br><b>To: </b>"VoiceOps" <voiceops@voiceops.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Sunday, June 13, 2021 1:11:30 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>[VoiceOps] Call Quality<br><br><style>p { margin: 0; }</style><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000">I've heard a variety of complaints and concerns over the years about call quality. How are these quality issues introduced? As long as pipes and equipment aren't overloaded, where is a quality issue to come from?<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Obviously, the closer you are to the handsets, the less opportunity there is for issues. What else is there to take into account?<br><br><div><span></span><br><br>-----<br>Mike Hammett<br>Intelligent Computing Solutions<br>http://www.ics-il.com<br><br><br><br>Midwest Internet Exchange<br>http://www.midwest-ix.com<br><br><span></span><br></div><br></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>VoiceOps mailing list<br>VoiceOps@voiceops.org<br>https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops<br></div><br></div></div></body></html>