Comment by na85

7 years ago

Aren't "traditional" aka POTS lines analog, and therefore not doing any encoding whatsoever?

There are band filters and such on legacy, fully analog systems.

G.711 (which is standard now for non-cellular call audio) is a step down, but Opus at 16Kbps sounds better to me than a classic, full analog system due to the lack of band cutoff & smarter encoding.