Comment Re:Accepting lower quality (Score 1) 250
Some corrections. My qualifications are that I provision voice and data services including VOIP for a fortune 500 phone company. My main project is our VOIP product.
The sampling rate of VOIP is not the same across all implementations/vendors. Our VOIP has double the sampling rate of standard PSTN service. It sounds AMAZING. You never want to use a standard PSTN phone once you get on our implementation.
Alarms, faxes, and paging systems are easily accommodated with the use of an ATA(analog terminal adapter). While some customer equipment still does not work it is the vast minority.
911 VOIP routing works just fine if your phone company is providing you VOIP. It's only the Vonages that ever had an issue with 911 routing.
It sounds like you have issues with your internet provider. The people designing the implementation and then operating the implementation are independent of of the reliability of the equipment itself. Those people have the most responsibility in how good your VOIP service operates. PSTN equipment does develop problems just like VOIP, just like all electronics. VOIP equipment is just as good as anything else.
