28 Feb
2011
28 Feb
'11
6:59 p.m.
On 2/28/2011 15:35, Joe Greco wrote:
There may be no compelling reason to do so, at least. However, digital gear offers benefits, and some people want them. Others, like me, live in bad RF environments where POTS picks up too much noise unless you very carefully select your gear and shield your cables. Further, the digital phones support other features, such as the ability to manage multiple calls seamlessly, present Caller-ID reliably (even while you are on another call), etc.
ISDN would have fit the bill nicely as a digital home phone line. However, it never became popular in the US. I once read on Wikipedia that it was popular in Germany. ~Seth