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Telephone Options: Cell Phones, VoIP, And Standard Phone Lines

Ah, the almighty telephone—if only Alexander Graham Bell were here to see what has become of his wonderful invention! If it wasn’t amazing enough to be able to communicate by phone in the first place, now we’re doing so wirelessly from practically everywhere.

Take a quick moment and realize how cool that is! It’s actually really amazing when you think about it! A decade or two ago, no one would have believed that every man, woman and child would have their own portable phone, but now they do!

But it doesn’t end there; now cell phones are taking over to the point where many people are canceling their standard phone service! And others, yet, are turning to their internet connections for phone service as an alternative!

Just like every technology that is on the fast rise and changing so quickly, the era of modern telephone tech is starting to confuse the masses. Let’s demystify your options quickly.

We’ll look at each type of phone you can have, which ones are good, and which to ditch!

Standard Phone Lines

Standard phone lines used to be the only kind you could have. Another term used to describe a standard phone line is “a land line.”

Standard Phone Advantages:

* Call Quality is Most Consistent Compared to other Phone Line Types

* Easiest To Use to Make Basic Calls

* No Complications or Added Features to Get in the Way

* Free Nationwide Long Distance is Often Offered

* Works during Power Outages

* No Need To Recharge Phone Batteries, if Cord Phone is used

* Harder to Lose Than Cell Phones

* Always Works Indoors

* Has Been Around Longest Thus Most Developed Technology

* Easy to Find Service and Phones Anywhere

* Useful in Home-Based Emergencies (less worries about dead batteries)

* Fewer Dropped Calls than Cell Phones and VoIP

* Better Customer Service than Cell Phone Providers

Standard Phone Disadvantages:

* Can’t Use Outside Home (except perhaps in yard)

* No Extra Features Like Text Messaging, Internet Access, Games, etc.

* Can Be an Extra Unneeded Cost When Also Using Cell Phone

* More Likely To Receive Telemarketing Calls in the Middle of Dinner

* Do Not Usually Have Built-In Address Book

* Not Generally Blu-Tooth Compatible

Cell Phones

Cell phones are quickly becoming as popular, if not more, than standard phone lines. Many people have struggled with whether they should still keep a standard phone line or not if they have a cell. There are valid arguments for and against this mindset. To decide, have a look at the advantages and disadvantages of cell phones.

Advantages of Cell Phones:

* Portable, Work Almost Anywhere

* Have Extra Features like Text Messaging, Internet Access, Games, etc.

* Have Built-In Address Book Standard

* Blu-tooth Compatible Standard

* Helpful in Emergencies outside the Home

* Keep in Touch with People When Not Home

* Better Call Quality than VoIP

* Have Been Around Longer than VoIP

Disadvantages of Cell Phones:

* Don’t Always Work Indoors

* Quality Not Consistent

* Dropped Calls

* More likely to be Lost or Stolen

* Fraudulent Charges on Bill More Likely

* Lower Quality Customer Service than Land Lines

* Have Not Been Around as Long as Land Lines = Less Developed Technology

VoIP Phone Lines

VoIP (voice over internet protocol) are internet-based phone lines. They are the newest, weakest and least popular technology in the current telephone industry. The future is bright, however, especially as internet speeds and reliability increase, and the advent of “internet everywhere” draws near.

Advantages of VoIP Phone Lines

* Often Less Expensive than other Phone Lines

* Free International Communication is offered

* Useable anywhere there is Internet Access

* Work Better At Home than Some Cell Phones

Disadvantages of VoIP:

* Lower Call Quality Reported

* Dropped Calls Most Common Among All Telephone Types

* You Must Share Your Internet Bandwidth with the Phone

* New and Under-developed technology (Arguably in a Beta Stage)

It is recommended not to use VoIP as an alternative to any other type of phone at this time. VoIP is probably “the future,” as mentioned previously, but is not ready to be your primary phone line just yet. International callers and certain business people will find them useful, but they are not recommended for the masses as of now.

You should not consider getting phone service through your cable or internet service provider as an alternative to cell phones or land lines. VoIP, as a supplemental phone line is fine, however.

The Little Known History Of Fiber Optic Telecommunication

1792 - The first practical optical telecommunication system - Claude Chappe's semaphore system

French inventor Claude Chappe demonstrated a practical semaphore system that eventually spanned all of France. His system was a series of semaphores mounted on towers, where human operators relayed messages from one tower to the next. It beat hand-carried messages hands down.

1854 - Total internal reflection - the technology foundation for fiber optic communication

One theory slowly took root which would ultimately solve the problem of optical communication. This phenomenon was named total internal reflection.

British physicist John Tyndall demonstrated total internal reflection by guiding light in a jet of water flowing from a tank. In the 1890s, inventors realized that bent quartz rods could carry light, and patented them as dental illuminators.

1880 - Alexander Graham Bell's optical telephone system

Alexander Graham Bell patented an optical telephone system, which he called the Photophone. He dreamed of sending signals through the air, but the atmosphere didn't transmit light as reliably as wires carried electricity.

1920 - The patent of using arrays of hollow pipes or transparent rods to transmit images

During the 1920s, John Logie Baird in England and Clarence W. Hansell in the United States patented the idea of using arrays of hollow pipes or transparent rods to transmit images for television or facsimile systems.

1930 - Heinrich Lamm demonstrated image transmission through a bundle of optical fibers

Munich's medical student Heinrich Lamm was the first person to have demonstrated image transmission through a bundle of optical fibers. In a 1930 paper, he reported transmitting the image of a light bulb filament through a short bundle.

1954 - Van Heel invented fiber cladding

All earlier fibers developed were bare and lacked any form of cladding, with total internal reflection occurring at a glass-air interface.

Dutch scientist Van Heel made the crucial innovation of cladding fiber-optic cables. He covered a bare fiber or glass or plastic with a transparent cladding of lower refractive index. This protected the total reflection surface from contamination and greatly reduced cross talk between fibers.

1960 - The invention of laser

The July 22, 1960 issue of Electronics magazine introduced its report on Theodore Maiman's demonstration of the first laser.

1964 - The critical and theoretical specification of optical fiber identified by Dr. Charles K. Kao

After a long, hard look at fiber attenuation, Dr. Kao concluded that the high losses of early fibers were due to impurities, not to silica glass itself. He forecasted that fiber loss could be reduced below 20 dB/km for long-range communication devices. Dr. Kao also illustrated the need for a purer form of glass to help reduce light loss.

1970 - Corning Glass's invention of low loss single mode fiber

Robert Maurer, Donald Keck, and Peter Schultz at Corning Glass announced they had made single-mode fibers with attenuation at the 633-nanometer helium-neon line below 20 dB/km.

1977 - The first live traffic fiber optic system

General Telephone and Electronics tested and deployed the world's first live telephone traffic through a fiber-optic system running at 6 Mbps.

Soon in May 1977, Bell Lab deployed an optical telephone communication system in the downtown Chicago area, covering a distance of 1.5 miles.