Landline or mobile phone

The landline resists both at home and in business, despite the fall in the number of lines and the growth of mobile connections that users pointed to replace the landline mobile phone. The landline works through the Public Switched Telephone Network, designed to transmit voice and data to convey the basic connection does not exceed 64 kbps, but now with xDSL technology allows broadband access up to 20 Mbps

Landline or mobile phone

Communications evolve as new technologies and new habits of behavior. The emergence of mobile phones led to major changes:

It is personal, not a place but calls to a specific person. You do not need to be home to receive calls or find a phone booth if you are away from home. Usually we give the number of mobile phone, fixed line even if we do not even know by heart the number of fixed phone.

While the number of mobile connections continues to grow, the number of fixed telephone lines has experienced a steady decline. However, when everything pointed to that users replace the fixed phone at home by mobile phone, surveys indicate that the percentage of households with fixed telephone only slightly reduced.

There are several reasons to resist the fixed phone at home:

The fixed communication quality is still considered better than the phone. The fixed to fixed calls are free if you have ADSL broadband contract. Generally require operators to have a permanent connection to provide ADSL broadband (57.4% of households have broadband). VoIP technology allows voice and video calls via the Internet without cost. Thus, although the use of mobile phones continues to expand (94.6% of households have mobile) this growth is not at the cost of the phone, which is present in 80% of households.

Switched Telephone Network

The landline works through the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), also called Basic Telephone Network (PSTN), a communication network designed for voice but can also carry data, eg, via modem or fax. Its operation is as follows:

The user connects to your landline phone called the local loop or local loop, a twisted copper pair that connects to a PBX switch. Each telephone exchange serving a variable number of customers. Communication between the central core is often achieved by intermediate or transit. In the local loop is analog signal, while the central usually communicate with each other digitally. The maximum flow rate for the basic connection does not exceed 64 kbps (56 kbps in the case of the modem), reaching 128 kbps using ISDN and xDSL up to 20 Mbps. Source: Telephone